To introduce students to their own decisions that facilitate the carceral surveillance state as related to the novel The Circle
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Objectives:
Upon completion of this module, students will be able to critically analyze the role of social media and technology in crimes of the powerful. Students will be able to synthesize last weeks readings to critical asses their own everyday life choices and decision-making in relation to crimes of the powerful, surveillance, data collection and the carceral logics of privacy.
Consider the following:
Tracker Source Percentage of Websites Containing Trackers
Google 85.6%
Facebook 36.2%
Adobe, Inc. 21.8%
Amazon 21.7%
Oracle 20.3%
TowerData 18.9%
AppNexus, Inc. 15.9%
Rubicon Project 13.9%
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-tracker-radar/
Tasks:
Read the assigned novel, The Circle
Complete the discussion board assignment for this lesson
Submit Writing Assignment 4 by the last day of class for this semester, Friday by 10 pm
Read Merger of Data Top Tech CO (Links to an external site.)
Read: Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US (Links to an external site.)
Recommended Task: I highly recommend you watch (Links to an external site.) or read (Links to an external site.) The Feed now that we have/are completing this course.
Food for thought and suggested activities:
To what extent do you worry about your privacy when using your smart phone? Do you think the state has too much knowledge of your personal information?
Consider your own consent and consumption of current social media and technology and how that plays into the ongoing fusion centers' data collection.
For more information on the ongoing technology push to see and know all see Google Rattles Tech World with New AI Chip
The final course assignment is to reflect on the novel (the one you chose either The Circle or The Feed) you were assigned this week and tie this to not only last week’s readings on our own role in supporting COPS but also the current technological issues/direction in this society as they relate to the novel. This is a reflective essay statement where you are to use personal reflection with additional facts and reference to specific aspects in the novel and to critical assess our participation including where we are heading. In other words, consider the novel juxtaposed with your, our, tech use, and what the novel may mean in relation to society going forward.