Facial Recognition
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Facial Recognition

Mark Andrejevic,Neil Selwyn

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Facial Recognition

Mark Andrejevic,Neil Selwyn

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About This Book

Facial recognition is set to fundamentally change our experience and understanding of monitoring, surveillance, and privacy. Backed by powerful industry interests, this technology is being integrated into many areas of society – from airports to shopping malls, classrooms to casinos. Despite the promise of security and efficiency, fears are growing that this technology is inherently biased, intrusive, and oppressive, with broad-ranging societal consequences.

In this timely book, Neil Selwyn and Mark Andrejevic provide a critical introduction to facial recognition. Outlining its complex social history and future technical forms, as well as its conceptual and technical underpinnings, the book considers the arguments being advanced for the continued uptake of facial recognition. In assessing these developments, the book argues that we are at the cusp of a generational shift in surveillance technology that will reconfigure our expectations of anonymity in shared and public spaces. Throughout, the book addresses a deceptively simple question: do we really want to live in a world where our face is our ID?

Facial Recognition is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communications studies, surveillance studies, criminology, and sociology, as well as for anyone interested in one of the defining technologies of our times.

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Publisher
Polity
Year
2022
ISBN
9781509547340
Edition
1
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Étude des média

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Facial Recognition: An Introduction
  8. 2 Facial Recognition: Underpinning Concepts and Concerns
  9. 3 Mapping the Facial Recognition Landscape
  10. 4 Pro-Social Applications: Facial Recognition as an Everyday ‘Good’?
  11. 5 Problematic Applications: Facial Recognition as an Inherent Harm?
  12. 6 Facial Futures: Emerging Promises and Possible Perils
  13. 7 Making Critical Sense of Facial Recognition and Society
  14. Epilogue: Facial Recognition – So Where Now?
  15. References
  16. Index
  17. End User License Agreement
Citation styles for Facial Recognition

APA 6 Citation

Andrejevic, M., & Selwyn, N. (2022). Facial Recognition (1st ed.). Polity Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3589183/facial-recognition-pdf (Original work published 2022)

Chicago Citation

Andrejevic, Mark, and Neil Selwyn. (2022) 2022. Facial Recognition. 1st ed. Polity Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/3589183/facial-recognition-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Andrejevic, M. and Selwyn, N. (2022) Facial Recognition. 1st edn. Polity Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3589183/facial-recognition-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Andrejevic, Mark, and Neil Selwyn. Facial Recognition. 1st ed. Polity Press, 2022. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.