Module Descriptors
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU: LIFE IN A SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY
SOCY60293
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 6
15 credits
Contact
Leader: David Gatley
Email: D.A.Gatley@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 20
Independent Study Hours: 130
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- LEARNING DIARY weighted at 25%
- COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 75%
Module Details
Module Learning Strategies
The module will be taught by means of a weekly one-hour lecture and a weekly one-hour seminar.
Module Additional Assessment Details
A PORTFOLIO equivalent to 4,000 words weighted at 100%, consisting of: -
A reflective diary of approximately 1000 words weighted at 25%[Learning Outcomes 3 & 4]
An essay of 3,000 words drawing on both secondary research and the reflective diary weighted at 75%[Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, & 4]
A reflective diary of approximately 1000 words weighted at 25%[Learning Outcomes 3 & 4]
An essay of 3,000 words drawing on both secondary research and the reflective diary weighted at 75%[Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, & 4]
Module Resources
Library.
Computer rooms with access to the Internet.
The Blackboard virtual learning environmnet will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.
Computer rooms with access to the Internet.
The Blackboard virtual learning environmnet will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.
Module Texts
Bennett, C. and Lyon, D. (2008) Playing the Identity Card
Dandeker, C. (1990) Surveillance, Power and Modernity.
Clark, R.V. (ed., 1997) Situational Crime Prevention.
Gatley, D.A. and Ell, P.S. (2000) Counting Heads.
Higgs, E. (2001) The Information State in England.
Lyon, D. (2007) Surveillance Studies: An Overview
Lyon, D. (ed.) (2006) Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond
Solove, D. J. (2004) The Digital Person
Dandeker, C. (1990) Surveillance, Power and Modernity.
Clark, R.V. (ed., 1997) Situational Crime Prevention.
Gatley, D.A. and Ell, P.S. (2000) Counting Heads.
Higgs, E. (2001) The Information State in England.
Lyon, D. (2007) Surveillance Studies: An Overview
Lyon, D. (ed.) (2006) Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond
Solove, D. J. (2004) The Digital Person
Module Indicative Content
This module introduces students to the nature of surveillance in the contemporary world.
Topics to be covered will be selected from:-
-The meaning and definition of surveillance
-Techniques of surveillance
- Surveillance by the state, employers and commercial organisations.
-The growth of state bureaucracy and the need to collect information in times of warfare and welfare. The caring/control continuum. The development of league tables in health, education, and welfare.
-Monitoring the body (health and welfare)
-Modern methods of policing, bobbies on the beat, Neighbourhood Watch, tagging and ASBOs.
-Citizenship, privacy and protecting individual rights
-Minorities, surveillance and social sorting.
-State surveillance and political control under Thatcher and New Labour 1979-2007.
-Theoretical approaches to surveillance (Marx, Weber and Foucault).
In their assessment portfolios students will be expected to reflect on their own experiences of surveillance in either a surveillance site (such as a workplace or the university) or whilst undertaking a specific activity (such as shopping or driving), and to relate these experiences to the literature and theoretical approaches to surveillance. In addition, students will need to show an awareness of how surveillance impinges onto their own lives, liberties and/or opportunities.
Topics to be covered will be selected from:-
-The meaning and definition of surveillance
-Techniques of surveillance
- Surveillance by the state, employers and commercial organisations.
-The growth of state bureaucracy and the need to collect information in times of warfare and welfare. The caring/control continuum. The development of league tables in health, education, and welfare.
-Monitoring the body (health and welfare)
-Modern methods of policing, bobbies on the beat, Neighbourhood Watch, tagging and ASBOs.
-Citizenship, privacy and protecting individual rights
-Minorities, surveillance and social sorting.
-State surveillance and political control under Thatcher and New Labour 1979-2007.
-Theoretical approaches to surveillance (Marx, Weber and Foucault).
In their assessment portfolios students will be expected to reflect on their own experiences of surveillance in either a surveillance site (such as a workplace or the university) or whilst undertaking a specific activity (such as shopping or driving), and to relate these experiences to the literature and theoretical approaches to surveillance. In addition, students will need to show an awareness of how surveillance impinges onto their own lives, liberties and/or opportunities.