ScheduleJan 5 - Week One: Introduction
Bruce Schneider, “The Internet is a Surveillance State”: http://cnn.it/1O8G7xp Glenn Greenwald, “Why Privacy Matters”, TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters?language=en What Google knows about you: http://www.cnet.com/videos/what-google-knows-about-you/#ftag=CAD7542482 Blog assignment #1: How has neoliberalism shaped social media? How does social media talk back to neoliberalism? Jan 12 - Week Two: Neoliberalism and Surveillance Culture • Alice E. Marwick, “Introduction” in Status Update, pp. 1-19 • Jill Walker Rettberg, Seeing Ourselves Through Technology, Chapter 6, “Privacy and Surveillance” pp. 79-88 • In class screening: Generation Like (PBS, 2014) Blog Assignment #2: Introduction to Biometrics and Data Recognition Assignment Jan 19 - Week Three: Panopticism • Foucault, “Panopticism” (Library Reserve) • Haggerty and Erickson, “The Surveillant Assemblage” (Library Reserve) • In-class screening: We Are Legion (2012; Part 1) Jan 26 - Week Four: Web 2.0 and its Antecedents • Marwick, Chapter 1, pp. 21-48 • In-class screening: We Are Legion (2012; Part 2) Paper #1 Due – Jan 26 @ midnight Feb 2 - Week Five: The New Feudalism and ‘Open’ Culture • Astra Taylor, “Preface” and Chapter 1, pp. 1-38 Feb 9 - Week Six: Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and the NSA • Taylor, Chapter 2, pp. 39-67 • In-Class Screening: Citizenfour (2014) Feb 15-19 – Reading Week – No class Feb 23 - Week Seven: Copyright & Property • Taylor, Chapter 5, pp. 141-176 • In-class screening: WikiLeaks - The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system: TPP, TTIP, TISA (8:22): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw7P0RGZQxQ&feature=youtu.be Mar 1 - Week Eight: Obfuscation as Practice and Theory (N.B. This week’s reading has changed from the preliminary syllabus so your assignments are more evenly spaced) • Finn Brunton & Helen Nissenbaum, “Introduction” and “Chapter 1: An Obfuscation Vocabulary” (Library Reserve) • Singer, Natasha. “Twisting Words to Make ‘Sharing’ Apps Seem Selfless”: http://nyti.ms/1MO27vm Paper #2 Due – March 1st @ midnight Mar 8 - Week Nine: Gender & Gamergate • Taylor, Chapter 4, pp. 104-140 Mar 15 - Week Ten: Filters • Rettberg, Chapter 2: Filters • Morgan Jerkin, “The Quiet Racism of Instagram Filters”: http://www.racked.com/2015/7/7/8906343/instagram-racism Mar 22 - Week Eleven: We Live in Public • Alice E. Marwick (article), “The Public Domain: Social Surveillance in Everyday Life.” Surveillance and Society (Library Reserve) Mar 29 - Week Twelve: Virtual Slaves, Digital Labour • Taylor, Chapter 6, pp. 177-213 • Abigail De Kosnik, “Fandom as Free Labor”, pp. 98-111, from Digital Labour. (Library Reserve) Paper #3 Due – March 29th @ midnight |
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