Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics

Catalog description

Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics is a graduate-level course which interrogates the rhetorical implications of the privacy-surveillance spectrum throughout local and global culture(s). Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics focuses on the inherent intertwining of rhetoric and ethics through the lens of privacy and surveillance. This focus is triangulated with well-established and emerging topics within the field of rhetoric and composition, including literacy and genre studies, language and identity, comparative/cultural rhetorics, and digital rhetorics. Course content critically engages with rhetorical methods and methodologies to study the theoretical and ethical dimensions of privacy and surveillance, including, but not limited to, Terms of Service (ToS) documents (e.g., privacy policies), Artificial Intelligence (AI), New Surveillance (e.g., DNA technology, facial recognition), educational technologies, algorithmic surveillance, Big Data, and social justice.