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May 09, 2024
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MS 148A PO - Topics in Media Theory: Surveillance and the Media: Observation, Power, and Control
CrsNo MS 148A PO
When Offered: Fall 2014.
Instructor(s): M. Andrejevic
This course considers the social and cultural implications of increasingly pervasive and comprehensive forms of surveillance of all kinds (visual, auditory, data) enabled by emerging digital media. It situates contemporary examples of the mediated forms of surveillance and monitoring in historical and theoretical perspective, drawing on critical theories of the relationship between surveillance, observation, power, and control. The course will explore a range of ways of thinking about the roles of observer and observed as well as the relationship between media technologies and techniques of observation. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: MS 049 PO , MS 050 PO or MS 051 PO .
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