10/17: The Web and Privacy

Essential Question:  How has the current version of the World Wide Web changed our relationship with the establishment, particularly in terms of personal information?

Class

1. Report on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four. 

• See the definition of Panopticon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon 
• To make my case partly: Violent video games: https://www.ranker.com/list/most-violent-video-games/devon-ashby

2. Hill, “Do Your Smart Devices Know Too Much?” Ted Radio Hour.  https://www.npr.org/2018/11/02/662631773/kashmir-hill-do-your-smart-devices-know-too-much

For next Thursday
Read and take notes of

• Andrews, “George Orwell...Meet Mark Zuckerberg”. Reporters  for Andrews: Joselynn, Gladys
• Silverman, “The Reputation Racket” Reporters for Silverman:  Angel, Ana, Stephanie

10/15: Psychological Effects of the Net and Web

Class

1. Report on Turkle

2. Watching and reflecting: Alter, “Why our screens make us less happy.” https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_alter_why_our_screens_make_us_less_happy

3.  Wiki Reports

4. Reading Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

For next class
Read and take notes for Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Chapter 1 The reporters will be Abhay, Luis, and Ana