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SOCI 3811

Surveillance and Society

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2022

Readings

  • Required: Bennet, C. J., K. D. Haggerty, D. Lyon, V. Steeves. 2014. Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada. AU
  • Required: Press, Edmonton, AB.
  • Required: Lyon, David. 2018. The Culture of Surveillance: Watching as a Way of Life. Polity Press, Medford, MA.
Winter 2017 · Surveillance and Society / Special Topics in Media Representations

Topics

  • gender, sexuality), culture (popular culture, big data, advertising, information studies)
  • society (population, crime, urban studies, security, terrorism, war, civil rights, production
  • and consumption, globalization), and activism (social media, ethics, law, policy
  • international relations, advocacy, and resistance). The cutting edge-nature of these
  • theories, concepts, and problems are one of the premiere issues of contemporary
  • society
  • but modules to be studied in their place each week in conjunction with weekly readings
  • which are lengthier than a “in person” course.
  • workload as we study surveillance online!

Readings

  • The following texts are the required readings for this course (
  • 1. Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish. Random House. (0679752552)
  • 2. Lyon, David. Surveillance After Snowden. Polity. (9780745690858)
  • 4. Orwell, George. 1984. Penguin. (9780141036144)
Sources