Citizen Spieslooks at citizens, surveillance, and how the police state conscripts us all. At a moment when citizens are contesting both the repressive and revolutionary potential ofcivic engagement, Reeves analysis of its evolution as a surveillance tool is exceptionally useful.

The New Republic

Wonderfully written, Citizen Spies asks us to consider the implications of governing when carried out through the bodies of citizens, particularly through their capacities for surveillance and communication. Examining case studies of U.S. citizens invited to spy on othersfrom D.A.R.E., a program that encourages children to snitch on their parents, to crowdsourcingReeves upends notions of civic duty. Citizen Spies provocatively invites us, in response to the invocation 'if you see something, say something,' to not say anything when we see something: silence as an act of radical resistance.

- Rachel E. Dubrofsky,co-editor, Feminist Surveillance Studies,

Citizen Spies offers a fascinating history of citizen-led policing, as well as partnerships between citizens and police, in order to situate current forms of criminal justice and information sharing through digital media. Timely, engaging, and a pleasure to read, Joshua Reeves provides a much-needed perspective for scholarly and practice-based conversations about policing technologies and surveillance.

- Daniel Trottier,author of Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging World,

In an age where surveillance studies tends to focus on digital systems and technologies, Joshua Reeves's excellent work reminds us of thelong duree of governance through the recruitment of citizens as extensions of police.This deep expedition into peer to peer spyingmeticulously connects seeing to saying, observing to reporting, and ultimately surveillance to communication.Citizen Spiestakes us on a rollicking ride where we discover that our neighbors are as integral as the devices in snoop and snitch culture.

- Jack Z. Bratich,author of Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture,

Joshua Reevess groundbreaking book explores the myriad ways in which looking out for one another has come to mean monitoring one another in the name of security and public safety. It is a cautionary tale for an era of interactive populism about how people have come to actively participate in their own submissionand how this could be otherwise. In this respect, it is an urgently important contribution to our understanding of the pitfalls and potentials of contemporary citizenship.

- Mark Andrejevic,Pomona College,