Mediated Governance Then and Now: How Broadcast, Biopolitics and Algorithms Control Our Conduct

The book intensively explores the governance techniques of control of public behaviour in the context of mediation. It draws on Michel Foucault's historic formulations — "e;governmentality"e; and "e;conduct of conduct"e; — but expands them to the contemporary times to trace the evolution of surveillance from the pre-digital past to the digital present.The analysis covers three sequential phases:  ...