Eavesdropping

Eavesdropping: an intimate history

by Locke, John L.

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Eavesdropping is a form of human communication in which the information gained is stolen. It encompasses cheating to get unfair advantage, espionage to uncover secrets, and supervision to maintain power. John Locke considers the biological drive behind this behaviour as well as its social implications and consequences. "Who among us hasn't eavesdropped on a stranger's conversation in a theater or restaurant? Indeed, scientists have found that even animals eavesdrop on the calls and cries of ot…

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  • Full title :Eavesdropping : an intimate history / John L. Locke.

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Eavesdropping is a form of human communication in which the information gained is stolen. It encompasses cheating to get unfair advantage, espionage to uncover secrets, and supervision to maintain power. John Locke considers the biological drive behind this behaviour as well as its social implications and consequences.

"Who among us hasn't eavesdropped on a stranger's conversation in a theater or restaurant? Indeed, scientists have found that even animals eavesdrop on the calls and cries of others. In Eavesdropping, John L. Locke provides the first serious look at this virtually universal phenomenon. Locke's entertaining and disturbing account explores everything from sixteenth-century voyeurism to Hitchcock's "Rear Window"; from chimpanzee behavior to Parisian café society; from private eyes to Facebook and Twitter. He uncovers the biological drive behind the behavior and highlights its consequences across history and cultures. Eavesdropping can be a good thing--an attempt to understand what goes on in the lives of others so as to know better how to live one's own. Even birds who listen in on the calls of distant animals tend to survive longer. But Locke also concedes that eavesdropping has a bad name. It can encompass cheating to get unfair advantage, espionage to uncover secrets, and secretly monitoring emails to maintain power over employees. In the age of CCTV, phone tapping, and computer hacking, this is eye-opening reading." -- Publisher's description

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  • Publication Date:2010.

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  • Description:ix, 266 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780199236138, 0199236135
  • oclc:ocn520711948
  • LC Classification:P96.P75
  • Dewey Decimal:306.44

Table of Contents

Passionate spectators -- Under the leaves -- Open-plan living -- Reluctant domestication -- Privacy, intimacy, and the selves -- Personal power and social control -- Passionate exhibitors -- What will the servants say? -- Virtual eaves -- Intimacy by theft.

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Belauschen Communication -- Aspect psychologique Communication -- Psychological aspects Eavesdropping Eavesdropping -- -History Eavesdropping -- -Psychological aspects History Kommunikation languages sociolinguistics Sociolinguistique Språksociologi

Writers

Locke, John L.

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