Our first major assignment will\u00a0consist of two (closely related) parts.<\/p>\n
1)\u00a0<\/strong>Your first task is to articulate, analyze, and document your own surveillance footprint<\/strong>. \u00a0Over the first five weeks of this course, we’ve all come to notice more and more ways in which we are captured, documented, witnessed, watched, listened to, or recorded by various mechanisms of surveillance. \u00a0I want you to describe and document (in whatever ways and media forms you want to\/are able to) the systems, mechanisms, and structures of surveillance by which you are captured in the average day. \u00a0Where, when, how, in what circumstances, by whom, and for what purpose are you surveilled? \u00a0To what uses are these various forms of data\u00a0about you put? \u00a0How and where might that data be shared? \u00a0Who has access to it? \u00a0Who might be interested in it, and for what reasons? \u00a0If some surveillance overlord figure had access to every piece of surveillance data you produce in an average day, what would that composite picture of you look like<\/em>?<\/p>\n You\u00a0should include in this part of the assignment (incorporated into the document itself, as much as possible) at least some concrete documentation: \u00a0a screen capture of the sleep data app \u00a0you use to tell you how well you’re sleeping each night, photos of surveillance cameras at places you frequent, a (redacted) image of your\u00a0GPS history or your browser history or what have you, a timestamped receipt from a parking garage, a stealthy video of someone watching you at Starbucks, and so on.<\/p>\n 2)<\/strong>\u00a0Then, I want you to compose a fictional narrative based on this composite image of you<\/strong>, this “data double,”\u2014a story your hypothetical surveillance overlord, with access to all of your surveillance data for a given day, might tell about who you are and what you’re up to. \u00a0The hinge, though, is that this narrative should be false, incomplete,\u00a0<\/strong>or inaccurate<\/strong> in some way. \u00a0It should accord with your surveillance data, but not with the actual facts of who you are or what you do. \u00a0In other words, it should explore some gap between the actual substance of your life and personality, and the data that surveillance might produce out of\u00a0that life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Part 1 should be at least 800 words<\/strong>; part 2 should be at least 300 words<\/strong>. \u00a0I’m absolutely open to the use of other media forms (for instance, your data double story might be a video or a podcast or something else), but please run it by me first.<\/p>\n I very much look forward to seeing what you come up with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our first major assignment will\u00a0consist of two (closely related) parts. 1)\u00a0Your first task is to articulate, analyze, and document your own surveillance footprint. \u00a0Over the first five weeks of this course, we’ve all come to notice more and more ways in which we are captured, documented, witnessed, watched, listened to, or recorded by various mechanisms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/surveillance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}