The Common Gaze

Surveillance and the Common Good

Eric Stoddart (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2021
SCM Press (Verlag)
978-0-334-06004-8 (ISBN)

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Our political spheres are riven with micro-targeted political advertising that degrades the possibilities and incentive for shared, respectful debate. We are producers as well as consumers of data when we record our physical, and sometimes our spiritual, exercise on smartphone apps. The algorithms which identify us, granting us access to state and corporate provision, are not objective but often deeply discriminatory against people of colour and those lower on socio-economic scales.

Offering a ground-breaking new perspective on one of the great concerns of our time, Eric Stoddart examines everyday surveillance in the light of concern for the common good. He reveals the urgent need to challenge data gathering and analysis that weakens the social fabric by dividing people into categories largely based on inferred characteristics, and interprets surveillance in relation to God’s preferential option for those who are poor. The Common Gaze is a call not only for revised surveillance but for better ways of understanding how God sees.

Eric Stoddart speaks and teaches widely in the area of how theology and religion in general might respond to our surveillance culture. He is Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion & Politics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland and jointly coordinates the research-focused Surveillance and Religion Network.

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction xi

Part 1

1. Surveillance as a Twenty-first-century Culture 3

2. The Common Gaze as a Twenty-first-century Imaginary 20

Part 2

3. Influence: Hacking Citizens 45

4. Identity: Quantifying Yourself 94

5. Identification: Algorithms of Oppression and Liberation 141

Part 3

6. Common Gazing as Public Practice 197

7. Common Gazing as Church Practice 207

Conclusion 218

Afterword 220

Bibliography 225

Index of Biblical References 245

Index 247

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-334-06004-4 / 0334060044
ISBN-13	978-0-334-06004-8 / 9780334060048
Zustand	Neuware