‘The Sandbox’ Only Touches the Surface of Surveillance
Without digging too deeply into the subject, as it warrants, The Sandbox contends that border zones are experimental grounds for hi-tech surveillance of vulnerable people.
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Only the Surveilling Technology Is New ‘The Listeners’ Contends
In The Listeners, scholar Brian Hochman narrates a history of surveillance in the United States by means of technological cunning up to 2001.
‘Going Stealth’: Trans Politics and Surveillance Practices
When activists cooperate with a repressive state, who gets left behind?
The Moving Pixels Podcast Becomes the ‘Beholder’
It's easy to think that we would never be complicit with the dictates of an authoritarian regime, but Beholder reveals how complicated such choices can become.
Bernard Harcourt’s Study on Our Surveillance State, ‘Exposed’, Is a Call for Action
Surveillance, contrary to 19th century theories, is not an activity perpetrated solely by actors of the state, but rather by “state like” actors -- and we are the actors.
‘Citizenfour’ Is Invaluable Cinéma Vérité
I welcome Oliver Stone’s forthcoming biopic about Snowden with an open mind, but I doubt that it will surpass the riveting realism of Citizenfour.
Marketing in the Age of Surveillance
What do you get when you try to marry perky start-up optimism with the ominous prospect of the surveillance age?