Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Christian Fuchs
Author-Workplace-Name: Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, UK
Title: Surveillance and Critical Theory
Abstract: In this comment, the author reflects on surveillance from a critical theory approach, his involvement in surveillance research and projects, and the status of the study of surveillance. The comment ascertains a lack of critical thinking about surveillance, questions the existence of something called “surveillance studies” as opposed to a critical theory of society, and reflects on issues such as Edward Snowden’s revelations, and Foucault and Marx in the context of surveillance.
Classification-JEL: 
Keywords: critical theory; Edward Snowden; Karl Marx; Michel Foucault; surveillance
Journal: Media and Communication
Pages: 6-9
Volume: 3
Issue: 2
Year: 2015
File-URL: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/207
File-Format: text/html 
Handle: RePEc:cog:MeAnCo:v:3:y:2015:i:2:p:6-9