Film Studies 320ME - Media and Surveillance

Fall
2018
01
4.00
Hannah Goodwin
T 01:30PM-04:20PM;W 07:15PM-09:15PM
Mount Holyoke College
104983
Art 219;Art 219
hgoodwin@mtholyoke.edu
With corporations using our data to anticipate;our desires and counterterrorism units tapping;into our communications, we are increasingly;embedded in a surveillance society. This course;considers practices of surveillance across media;platforms, from smartphones, fitness trackers,;and baby monitors to the biometric technologies;that determine who may cross borders. We will;explore how different governments, corporations,;and individuals use new media to surveil others,;as well as the ways racism and transphobia are;inscribed in surveillance practices. We will also;discuss and try out protective measures and;various subversive practices of "sousveillance."
Prereq: FLMST-201, or FLMST-202, or FLMST-203.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.