
Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication
Concepts and Connections
Sarah Young(Author)
State University of New York Press
Published on 1. April 2023
Book
Hardback
236 pages
978-1-4384-9276-6 (ISBN)
Description
Addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.
What is surveillance, and why should we care? Why are those who use technology susceptible to being both agents and targets of contemporary surveillance practices? Working Through Surveillance and Technical Communication addresses these questions, discussing what it means to engage in surveillance, examining why this participation may be problematic, and offering entry points into assessing one's ethical and socially just involvement with surveillance. Further, the book suggests ways to resist both individually and collectively, and it offers pedagogical entry points for those looking to talk about surveillance with others. Led by the central questions, "How are technical communicators also surveillance workers?" and "Why does this matter for technical communication and surveillance scholarship?" the text uses the example of Edward Snowden to illustrate how technical communicators and surveillance workers exist on an often-overlapping range. Sarah Young highlights the potentially discriminatory nature of surveillance and argues that recognizing and evaluating surveillance in is increasingly important in a data-driven world.
Open Access funded by Erasmus University Rotterdam Library in support of open science initiatives. It can be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8546.
What is surveillance, and why should we care? Why are those who use technology susceptible to being both agents and targets of contemporary surveillance practices? Working Through Surveillance and Technical Communication addresses these questions, discussing what it means to engage in surveillance, examining why this participation may be problematic, and offering entry points into assessing one's ethical and socially just involvement with surveillance. Further, the book suggests ways to resist both individually and collectively, and it offers pedagogical entry points for those looking to talk about surveillance with others. Led by the central questions, "How are technical communicators also surveillance workers?" and "Why does this matter for technical communication and surveillance scholarship?" the text uses the example of Edward Snowden to illustrate how technical communicators and surveillance workers exist on an often-overlapping range. Sarah Young highlights the potentially discriminatory nature of surveillance and argues that recognizing and evaluating surveillance in is increasingly important in a data-driven world.
Open Access funded by Erasmus University Rotterdam Library in support of open science initiatives. It can be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8546.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student
Illustrations
3 Figures; 10 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-9276-6 (9781438492766)
DOI
10.1353/book.115422
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Person
Sarah Young is is Lecturer at the University of Arizona's School of Information and worked as a postdoc at the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Introduction to Surveillance and Technical Communication
2. Surveillance Workers and Technical Communicators
3. Information, Technical Communication, and Surveillance
4. Evaluations and Responses: Social Justice, Ethics, and Surveillance
5. Resisting Surveillance through Tactical Communication and Social Justice
6. Surveillance Writing: A Pedagogy
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Introduction to Surveillance and Technical Communication
2. Surveillance Workers and Technical Communicators
3. Information, Technical Communication, and Surveillance
4. Evaluations and Responses: Social Justice, Ethics, and Surveillance
5. Resisting Surveillance through Tactical Communication and Social Justice
6. Surveillance Writing: A Pedagogy
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index