Lyon, David -

Personal Information
First Name: 
David
Last Name: 
Lyon
Department / Program: 
OTHER
Other: 
Sociology
University Affiliation: 
Queen's University
Phone: 
6135336000
Extension: 
74489
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Subject: 
Technology
Geographical Region: 
Global
Time Period: 
20th Century
Current
Specific Area of Research: 
Surveillance and social sorting; identification regimes; citizenship; privacy; information technologies; religion; postmodernity; sociology and christianity
Academics
PHD Program: 
History
PHD University: 
University of Bradford
PHD Date: 
1976
Major Publications: 
Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance (Polity 2009); Playing the Identity Card (co-edited with Colin Bennett, Routledge 2008); Surveillance Studies: An Overview (Polity 2007); Theorizing Surveillance (ed, Willan, 2006); Surveillance after September 11 (Polity 2003); Surveillance as Social Sorting (ed. Routledge 2003); Surveillance Society (Open University Press, 2001); Computers, Surveillance and Privacy (c- edited with Elia Zureik, U Minnesota Press, 1996); The Electronic Eye (Polity 1994)
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Royal Society of Canada (Fellow); Canadian Sociological Association; Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre