Surveillance in Cultural Context: Seven Films
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesExplore the culture of surveillance in modern society in a series of brilliant films about surveillance and modernity.
Explore the culture of surveillance in modern society in a series of brilliant films about surveillance and modernity.
Helen Nissenbaum: "Obfuscation is a compelling 'weapon-of-the-weak,' which deserves to be developed and strengthened, its moral challenges countered and mitigated."
Sun-ha Hong on how "big" data and surveillance are not just about privacy and security but also redistribution of authority, credibility and responsibility.
This talk by Anne-Katrin Weber explores the politics of CCTV, highlighting the adaptability of closed-circuit technologies, which accommodate to, and underpin variable contexts of media participation as well as of surveillance and control.
