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Is our society becoming more and more transparent, or is it just an illusion of transparency? After reading two readings, I had such a question in my mind. One of the points that impressed me the most in “The transparency society” is that even after a lot of effort was passed to pass laws on privacy, theContinue reading “Assignment #8”

PART ONE Helen Nissenbaum’s Contextual Privacy theory emphasizes that the privacy right is about a right to transfer personal information properly. And the judgment of privacy depends on the context. This means that people can not simply use space or location to define privacy. We can have a privacy right in a public place, alsoContinue reading “Assignment #7 Part1 & part 2”

Subject 1: • Female • Age: 23 • Appearance: small-boned, tallish, lifeless eyes, pony-tail  • Dress: an ill-fitting cowboy suit, old black sneakers  • Family: has a brother who is good at school (24 years old, studies in mainland China); her parents run a small restaurant in ShenZhen province; father is a cook who lovesContinue reading “Assignment #6 Mini projects”

The lives of others are watched, and eavesdroppers are also watched. After watching the film, what impressed me is the interesting and clever visual structure of the video. The film’s name is “The Lives of Others”, which means that from the beginning, the audience, we, were also placed in the position of eavesdroppers. But differentContinue reading “Assignment #5 The live of others”

Facing multiple-choice questions of privacy and survival, it is always difficult to have a correct answer. But whatever the choice is, the result is the same. Privacy and surveillance are interdependent and related to each other. It is precise because everyone has the meaning of privacy and surveillance, and it is also because of surveillanceContinue reading “Assignment #4 About Three News”

There is an idiom in China called 祸从口出, which means that carelessness can easily cause trouble. But now I feel that 祸从口出 have changed from words to 祸从手（hands）出. Because of the development of the Internet, there are various ways to express your opinions on the Internet. Most people use typing to express their opinions and share and discuss withContinue reading “Assignment #3 Information, Identification, Industry”

When the society of control is combined with digitalism, huge changes are happening. In the disciplinary society, people go from one closed environment to another closed environment and start again and again, but in the control society, people will never know anything. Because society has been transformed at any time like a universal deformer toContinue reading “Assignment #2 Postscript on the Societies of Control”

Surveillance is a complex thing. It is closely related to many disciplines and technologies. The change in cultural atmosphere and public awareness also has a negligible impact on the development of surveillance. Under the influence of control culture, parents’ monitoring of their children is also worth pondering. There should be the closest relationship between parentsContinue reading “Assignment #1(2) The Watched World Today”

Surveillance in different regions has different interpretations for different classes and occupations. But it is very important to distinguish whether the surveillance attributes are good or bad depends on whether there is a reasonable and appropriate purpose for the monitoring behavior. The article mentions that Eila said that the people who established a certain surveillanceContinue reading “Assignment #1 Explaning Surveillance”