The Intensification of Surveillance: Crime, Terrorism and Warfare in the Information Age
Edited by Kirstie Ball and Frank Webster
Pluto Press, 2003

A tightly themed and edited collection on "surveillance" - as intelligence-gathering, as a component in strategies of social control and as a socio-technical system that is increasingly impacting on every aspect of our lives - through the intrusion of overt and covert surveillance in virtually every public and private sphere, whether criminal or civil. The contributors to this volume ask what this intensification of surveillance means, how we benefit and what we might lose. How do we track suspects, define risks, combat crime without also, possibly, eroding our civil liberties and sacrificing our rights to privacy? What are the issues, the threats and the opportunities? The contributors to this volume seek to map out the dimensions of the problem and to offer a strategy for monitoring future developments.--Pluto Press

Other Publications:
Ball, K. "Exposure: Exploring the Subject of Surveillance Information," Information, Communication and Society, 2009,12(5): 639 – 657.

Ball, K. "The Labours of Surveillance," Surveillance and Society, Issue 2. 2003.www.surveillance-and-society.org

Ball, K. "Elements of surveillance: A new framework and future directions." Information, Communication and Society. 5 (4). Pp.573 - 590. 2002.

Ball, K. "Situating workplace surveillance: Ethics and computer based performance monitoring." Ethics and Information Technology. 3(3). Pp. 211 - 223. 2001.

Ball, K. "Little brothers are watching you: A review of David Lyon's 'Surveillance Society'" Information Technology and People, December. 2001.

Ball, K. "The use of Human Resource Information Systems: A survey." Personnel Review 30 (6) Pp 677 - 693. 2001.

Ball, K and D. Wilson. "Power, control and computer based performance monitoring: A subjectivist approach to repertoires and resistance." Organization Studies 21 (3) Pp 539 - 565. 2000.

Contributions to Edited Volumes

Ball, K. and F. Webster. "The Intensification of Surveillance," In Ball, K and Webster, F. The Intensification of Surveillance: Crime, Terrorism and Warfare in the Information Era. London: Pluto Press. 2003.

Wood, D, E. Konvitz and K. Ball. "The Constant State of
Emergency," In Ball, K and F. Webster. The Intensification of Surveillance: Crime, Terrorism and Warfare in the Information Era. London: Pluto Press. 2003.

Ball K. "Categorizing the workers: Electronic surveillance and social ordering in the call centre." In Lyon, D (ed) Surveillance as Social Sorting. London: Routledge. 2002.

Research Reports

Lyon, D., Kirstie Ball et al, A Report on the Surveillance Society for the Information Commissioner by the Surveillance Studies Network, September 2006.

Ball, K. Human Resource Information Systems: Opportunity or Threat? Economic and Social Research Council Management Research Fellowship Award Number H537627500296. 2000.