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Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students. Recognising that the use of digital technologies will persist, the authors instead offer practical ways to ameliorate their impact.
List of contents
Introduction 1. The Legality of School Surveillance 2. The Culture of School Surveillance 3. The Harm in School Surveillance 4. Resisting Surveillance Schooling
About the author
Nolan Higdon is a founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, Project Censored National Judge, author, and lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Higdon's areas of concentration include podcasting, digital culture, news media history, propaganda, and critical media literacy. All of Higdon's work is available at Substack (https://nolanhigdon.substack.com/). He is the author of
The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education (2020) and
Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy (Routledge, 2022), and co-author of
The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People (2022). Higdon is a regular source of expertise for
CBS, NBC, The New York Times, and
The San Francisco Chronicle.
Allison Butler is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Media Literacy Certificate Program in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She is also Co-Director of the Mass Media Literacy non-profit organization, where she develops and runs training programs for teachers covering critical media literacy in K-12 schools, Vice President on the Board of the Media Freedom Foundation, and a spokesperson for Project Censored. Her research focuses on critical media literacy and critiques of surveillance technologies in education. She is the author of
Educating Media Literacy: The Need for Teacher Education in Critical Media Literacy (2020), and co-author of
Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning: Interactive Explorations for Students and Teachers (2021) and
The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People (2022).
Summary
Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students. Recognising that the use of digital technologies will persist, the authors instead offer practical ways to ameliorate their impact.
