Surveillance and the Eye of God
David Lyon is Professor of Sociology and Queen’s Research Chair in Surveillance Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Author of a number of important works on the role of surveillance in contemporary society, Lyon is North American editor of Surveillance & Society and on the international editorial boards of seven other journals. His books have been translated into thirteen languages: Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. In 2005, Lyon was awarded a Queen’s Research Chair and in 2007 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technology Section. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Cosponsored by the Committee for the Study of Religion