Re: [liberationtech] Suggestions for a reading on consumer surveillance

2014-02-01 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Lita The course is Surveillance in Visual Culture--visual culture being visual methods of surveillance and visual evidences of surveillance. My student is focusing on the images that evidences how Euclid tracks movement in stores--which look very much like the Gilbreth photographs used in t

Re: [liberationtech] Suggestions for a reading on consumer surveillance

2014-02-01 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Can you give us a little bit more of what you're looking for? You want a descriptive article suitable for American Studies students on video surveillance? (or what is "visual" surveillance in your mind?) Euclid analytics is not something I would term

[liberationtech] Suggestions for a reading on consumer surveillance

2014-01-31 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Lita I am teaching a course called Surveillance in Visual Culture. One week I've scheduled us to talk about corporate surveillance of workers and consumers. For the surveillance of workers, I am assigning a chapter from Elspeth Brown's book The Corporate Eye. However I am still trying to