In this Book
- Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication: Concepts and Connections
- Book
- 2023
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series, Studies in Technical CommunicationSUNY Press Open Access
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
summary
What is surveillance, and why should we care? Why are those who use technology susceptible to being both agents and targets of contemporary surveillance practices? Working Through Surveillance and Technical Communication addresses these questions, discussing what it means to engage in surveillance, examining why this participation may be problematic, and offering entry points into assessing one's ethical and socially just involvement with surveillance. Further, the book suggests ways to resist both individually and collectively, and it offers pedagogical entry points for those looking to talk about surveillance with others. Led by the central questions, "How are technical communicators also surveillance workers?" and "Why does this matter for technical communication and surveillance scholarship?" the text uses the example of Edward Snowden to illustrate how technical communicators and surveillance workers exist on an often-overlapping range. Sarah Young highlights the potentially discriminatory nature of surveillance and argues that recognizing and evaluating surveillance in is increasingly important in a data-driven world.
Open Access funded by Erasmus University Rotterdam Library in support of open science initiatives. It can be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8546.
Open Access funded by Erasmus University Rotterdam Library in support of open science initiatives. It can be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8546.
Table of Contents

- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-4
- Introduction
- pp. 1-4
- 6 Surveillance Writing: A Pedagogy
- pp. 133-158
- 6 Surveillance Writing: A Pedagogy
- pp. 133-158
- Conclusion
- pp. 159-164
- Conclusion
- pp. 159-164
- References
- pp. 171-200
- References
- pp. 171-200
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438492773
Related ISBN(s)
9781438492759, 9781438492766
MARC Record
OCLC
1391443195
Pages
236
Launched on MUSE
2024-01-28
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND