Privacy & Surveillance
DTEM 4440 Spring 2019 Syllabus
The course book is Raymond Wacks Privacy: A very short introduction. The rest of the readings are available on Blackboard.
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.
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.
Week 1 What is Privacy
Warren & Brandeis: The Right to Privacy
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 Why We Should Care
Wacks Privacy Chapter 1
Solove “I’ve Got Nothing to Hide” and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
Pearson J (2017 Digital Surveillance Is Class Warfare MotherBoard
Madden et al (2017) Privacy, Poverty and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor AmericansData&Society
Eubanks (2014) Want to Predict the Future of Surveillance? Ask Poor Communities.
Daniel Solove: Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear?
Week 3 Evolution of Privacy
Westin Chapter 3: The Origins of Modern Claims to Privacy****
Wacks Privacy Chapter 2
The Toilet An unspoken History
Week 4 Theorizing Privacy
Purdy: Surveillance Knowledge and Inequality
Bogard Simulation and post panopticonism (Surveillance studies)
An Introduction to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish – A Macat Sociology Analysis
PHILOSOPHY – Michel Foucault
Week 5 Photography & The Gaze
Sontag: On Photography. Chapter On Plato’s Cave
Zeronda: Street Shootings Wacks Privacy Chapter 3
Week 6 Privacy & Freedom of Expression
Wacks Chapter 4
Posner Economic Theory of Privacy
Couldry (2016) The price of connection: ‘surveillance capitalism’ The Conversation
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
The Surveillance Firm Recording Crimes From Baltimore’s Skies
History of a Public Controversy: Government Surveillance
Week 7 Women & Privacy
Nussbaum: Is Privacy Bad for Women?
Wagner Decew: The Feminist Critique of Privacy
Week 8 Clothing & Privacy
Allen: Unpopular Privacy. Chapter 3 Modesty.
Bilefsky: France’s Burkini Debate Reverberates Around the World
Week 9 Social Surveillance and Social Media
Trottier & Lyon: Key Features of Social Media Surveillance
Marwick: The Public Domain: Surveillance in Everyday Life
Week 10 CLOSED SPRING RECESS
Week 11 Agency & Resistance
Koskela: The other side of surveillance or
Bell: Surveillance is Sexy
Gilliom Resisisting Surveillance
Does Reality TV Affect Our View On Surveillance? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
Week 12 Data Bodies & Dataveillance
Cheney Lippold ‘Subjectivity: Who Do They Think You Are?’, Chapter 3, *****
van Dijck: Datafication, dataism and dataveillance
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 13 Sousveillance & Autoveillance
Mann & Fernbok: New Media and the power politics of sousveillance
Week 14 Crowdsourcing Surveillance
Tewksbury: Crowdsourcing Homeland Security
Spy Merchants – Al Jazeera Investigations
Week 15 Movie Discussion
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen, 2006)