"The Micro Surveillance and Micromanagement of the New College Student" by Gerry Bello https://www.mockingbirdpaper.com/content/micro-surveillance-and-micromanagement-new-college-student
On 2020-01-28 23:14, jim bell wrote: > https://www.marketwatch.com/story/are-universities-morphing-into-orwellian-states-2020-01-27 > > [partial quote follows] > > "Americans are experimenting with methods similar to China’s social credit > system. By tracking student movements and regulating faculty to standards of > political correctness, they risk socializing young people to the methods of > high-tech authoritarian state control. > Syracuse University, the University of North Carolina and others are > installing wi-fi apps and Bluetooth devices to monitor class attendance and > visits to libraries, recreation centers, dining halls and potentially every > other campus location. These create profiles that faculty and administrators > can use to reward good learning habits, flag mental health issues, and impel > students to modify personal habits to norms of model student behavior." > [end of partial quote] > > >
