Week 5: The Internet of Things (IoT), Surveillance Capitalism, and The Military Industrial Complex.
Read before class:
Jennifer Gabrys, “Re-thingifying the internet of things,” in Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment, eds. Nicole Starosielski and Janet Walker (Routledge, 2016), 180-195.
Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge, “Surveillance Capitalism and the Internet of Things: Alexa, how did you know?” Literary Hub. April 2, 2020, https://lithub.com/surveillance-capitalism-and-the-internet-of-things/. Reprinted from Bruder and Maharidge, Snowden’s Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance (Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2020).
Spencer Bailey, host, Time Sensitive, episode 49, “Trevor Paglen on Art in the Age of Mass Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence,” The Slowdown, September 22, 2021, 65 min., 41 sec., https://timesensitive.fm/episode/trevor-paglen-on-art-in-the-age-of-mass-surveillance-and-artificial-intelligence/. (full transcript available at the link)
Optional reading:
Browse through the two online articles from IBM and Oracle: