What exactly is a ‘surveillance society’? Essays -- Politics, Civil L

What exactly is a surveillance society? The verge is often used by the popular media to refer to the older much totalitarian notions of the security state or Orwellian references to Big fellow (Wood, 2009 180). However, Wood points out that surveillance societies shew immense cultural and geographic variety, in both historic and contemporary contexts, and need not exhibit totalitarian features (2009 181). Wood acknowledges that more study of how societies encounter surveillance in order to determine the elements that operate at the different socio-spatial levels (2009 189).The right equalizer between surveillance and privacy, and security and civil liberties, is far from clear. While some shy away from the Orwellian nightmare depicted in the wise Nineteen-eighty-four (1984), they also demand protection from criminal activities and terrorist attacks. Post 9/11 civil liberties have been increasingly traded in for greater surveillance of the citizenry, curiously in the US and as sociated countries (Jrgensen, 2004 55). Surveillance is not inherently sinister or malig...