User:Anna

About me
Hi. I am doing a conjoint degree in Computer Science and Accounting, and this is my fourth (and final) year at the university. Geog 103 is one of the elective papers needed to complete my degree. So far I find it quite interesting and informative.

Useful links

 * Gyre.org: Surveillance Technology section - this is an interesting news site that does "tracking the next military and technological revolutions". There is a vide range of news from satellite tracking to face recognition by the police to discussion of the privacy issues.


 * One of the links from the previous website leads to David Brin's website and particularly his book "The Transparent Society" that discusses the impact of the surveillance technology on people by using examples of two imaginary cities. Quite an interesting read.


 * And finally the Surveillance and Society website (which I've also seen on another student's page). This is a research project's site that discusses the technological impact on the society by conducting surveys, etc.

Essay
I've chosen surveillance as my essay topic and "1984" by George Orwell and "Enemy of the State" as examples. The novel presents a society where the use of surveillance heve been taken to the extreme: the telescreens that are able to receive and transmit simultaneously watch people's every move and even thought. The movie shows how the surveillance technology used by the National Security Agency can deprive an innocent person of his private life instead of doing its primary job of tracking criminals and suspects. One of the articles on the the Surveillance and Society website discusses this and other movies dealing with the surveillance technologies.

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