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

What exactly is a inspection society? The term is often use by the popular media to refer to the older more totalitarian notions of the security state or Orwellian references to Big Brother (Wood, 2009 180). However, Wood points out that surveillance societies exhibit immense cultural and geographical variety, in both historic and contemporary contexts, and need not exhibit totalitarian features (2009 181). Wood acknowledges that more say of how societies encounter surveillance in order to determine the elements that operate at the different socio-spatial levels (2009 189).The right balance between surveillance and privacy, and security and civil liberties, is uttermost from clear. While many shy away from the Orwellian nightmare depicted in the novel 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, especially in the US and a ssociated countries (Jrgensen, 2004 55). Surveillance is not inherently sinister or malig...