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Week 9: Critical and Cultural Theories of Mass Communication -back to MACS 110 Home-
One of the classic four functions of the media is surveillance of the environment. This was commonly understood to mean consuming media such as news in order to help understand the world around us. Given what you know about the virtual panopticon, what concerns might a critical theorist have about the role of the media in creating a mass surveillance society - i.e. a world in which the media watch the masses.
The Big Brother State | Big Brother Talks Back | Fox News Promotes Verichip | Your Papers Please | The New Panopticon: The Internet Viewed as a Structure of Social Control
How Facial Recognition Software Works
Britain is 'surveillance society'
Welcome to the Panopticon ". . . For example, Tampa's face-recognition database contains 30,000 images of people with outstanding felony warrants."
Original plan of the Panopticon
What you should know about the Patriot Act | Privacy and Technology page of the American Civil Liberties Union
The Surveillance Society: The Erosion of Privacy in America
