Surveillance and Digital Media

Undergraduate

This course provides an historical and conceptual examination surveillance and digital media. It critically assesses the capacities of the State and corporate entities to monitor digital activities and explores the social, political and economic implications of surveillance practices within digital media. Topics may include: user-generated and social media surveillance, mobile technologies, cloud computing, geo- locating technologies, tracking software, biometrics and data mining. (Prerequisite: CMAF-2010.)