| Course Title: Intermediate Courses in History and Theory: 'Media and Surveillance' |
| Start Date: 01/23/2024 End Date: 05/07/2024 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2024 |
| Description: 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". |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Hannah Goodwin | hgoodwin@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/23/2024 - 05/07/2024 | Lecture | Tuesday and Thursday | 01:45PM - 03:00PM | KNDD - Kendade | 107 | Weekly |
| 01/23/2024 - 05/07/2024 | Film Screening | Wednesday | 07:15PM - 10:05PM | ART - Art | 219 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 4 credits in Film Media Theater. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Open to sophomores and juniors only in the first week of pre-registration. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the second week. |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| FMT0004 | FMT-CR: Critical Studies | This course has been approved to count towards the Film, Media, Theater major in the Critical Studies area. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 17 | Available: 1 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |