Lyon, David

Autor: Lyon, David
Rok: 1948-

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Kanadský sociolog.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

David Lyon directs the Surveillance Studies Centre, is a Professor of Sociology, holds a Queen’s Research Chair and is cross-appointed as a Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Best known internationally for his work in Surveillance Studies, and for concepts he has developed, such as "social sorting," Lyon also teaches and researches in the areas of information society, globalization, secularization, and postmodernity. He is co-editor of the journal Surveillance & Society, Associate Editor of The Information Society and is on the international editorial board of a number of other academic journals. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technology Section in 2007 and an Outstanding Contribution Award from Canadian Sociological Association in 2012. From 2008-2010 Lyon was a Killam Research Fellow, the highest fellowship awarded by the Canada Council. He has held visiting appointments in a number of universities including Auckland, Edinburgh, Leeds, Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, the Centre for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Lyon received a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in social science and history at the University of Bradford in Yorkshire, UK, during which he became interested in the driving forces behind and social consequences of some major transformations of the modern world.