Privacy & Surveillance
DTEM 4440 Spring 2018 Syllabus
The course book is Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies (2012) edited by Edited by Kirstie Ball, Kevin Haggerty, David Lyon.
A good booklet on how many of our fundamental technologies work is McNamee et al, How the Internet Works: A guide for policy-makers. European Digital Rights. Also check out Julien Hopkins: How to Define Social Media – An Academic Summary.
Week 1 Course Introduction
Check out The Privacy Paradox from Note to Self. Its a series of 5 letters which include tips and a short podcast explaining the science, psychology, and tech behind each challenge.
Ferenstein (2014) The Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images. Medium
Jill Lepore: Our evolving attitudes toward surveillance, secrets, and privacy – The New Yorker Festival
The Secret History of American Surveillance
Week 2 Understanding Surveillance
Tue:
- Elmer: Panopticon—discipline—control,
- Bogard: Simulation and post-panopticism
Fri:
- Ceyhan: Surveillance as biopower
An Introduction to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish – A Macat Sociology Analysis
PHILOSOPHY – Michel Foucault
https://youtu.be/0ZHm3vkavgM
The Toilet An unspoken History
Week 3 Difference, Politics, Privacy
Tue:
- Koskela: “You shouldn’t wear that body”: The problematic of surveillance and gender
- Weller: The information state: An historical perspective on surveillance
Fri:
- Rule: “Needs” for surveillance and the movement to protect privacy
- Browne: Race and surveillance
Shepard (2016) 5 reasons why surveillance is a feminist issue Gender IT
Bedoya (2016) The Color of Surveillance Slate
Surveillance and Race Online | Simone Browne at MozFest
Week 4 Cultures of Surveillance
Tue:
- McGrath: Performing surveillance
- Andrejevic: Ubiquitous surveillance
Fri:
- Kammerer: Surveillance in literature, film and television
- Smith: Surveillance work(ers)
Does Reality TV Affect Our View On Surveillance? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
Week 5 Social Division of Surveillance
Tue:
- Sa’di: Colonialism and surveillance
- Jenkins: Identity, surveillance and modernity: Sorting out who’s who
Fri:
- Hayes: The surveillance-industrial complex
- van der Ploeg: The body as data in the age of information
Pearson J (2017 Digital Surveillance Is Class Warfare MotherBoard
Madden et al (2017) Privacy, Poverty and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans Data&Society
Eubanks (2014) Want to Predict the Future of Surveillance? Ask Poor Communities.
Daniel Solove: Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear?
Week 6 Population Control
Tue:
- Adey: Borders, identification and surveillance: New regimes of border control
- Fussey & Coaffee: Urban spaces of surveillance
Fri:
- Donaldson: Surveillance and non-humans
- Taylor: The rise of the surveillance school
History of a Public Controversy: Government Surveillance
Week 7 Crime and Policing
Tue:
- Haggerty: Surveillance, crime and the police
- McCahill: Crime, surveillance and the media
Fri:
- Norris: The success of failure: Accounting for the global growth of CCTV
- Arteaga Botello: Surveillance and urban violence in Latin America: Mega-cities, social division, security and surveillance
Couldry (2016) The price of connection: ‘surveillance capitalism’ The Conversation
The Surveillance Firm Recording Crimes From Baltimore’s Skies
Week 8 Security, intelligence, war
Tue:
- Wilson: Military surveillance
- Bigo: Security, surveillance and democracy
Fri:
- Monahan: Surveillance and Terrorism
- Gates: The globalization of homeland security
Week 9 Digital Spaces of Surveillance
Tue:
- Murakami Wood: Globalization and surveillance
- Bruno: Surveillance and participation on Web 2.0
Fri:
- Steeves: Hide and seek: Surveillance of young people on the internet
Astor (2017) Your Roomba May Be Mapping Your Home, Collecting Data That Could Be Shared. New York Times
Kim, D. (2014) Social Media and Academic Surveillance: The Ethics of Digital Bodies, Model View Culture
Online Privacy: How Did We Get Here? | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios
The Power of Privacy – documentary
Big Data and the Algorithmic Citizen
Week 10 Library Session: Introduction to research articles
Week 11 No Class this week
Week 12 Limiting Surveillance
Tue:
- Stoddart: A surveillance of care: Evaluating surveillance ethically
- Raab: Regulating surveillance: The importance of principles
Fri:
- Kerr & barrigar: Privacy, identity and anonymity
Weinberg, J. (2017) The Real Costs of Cheap Surveillance. The Conversation
Victor (2016) Study Urges Tougher Oversight for Police Use of Facial Recognition. The New York Times
Feeney (2017) When It Comes to Surveillance, Watch the Watchmen. New York Times
Week 13 Regulation & Resistance
Tue:
- Regan: Regulating surveillance technologies: Institutional arrangements
- Gilliom & Monahan: Everyday resistance
Fri:
- Bennett: Privacy advocates, privacy advocacy and the surveillance society
- Abu-Laban: The politics of surveillance: Civil liberties, human rights and ethics
Spy Merchants – Al Jazeera Investigations
Week 14 – 16 Pecha Kucha Presentations & Summing up