Tag: Surveillance
Cell towers have come to symbolize our deep collective anxieties
Steven Jones, University of South Florida
The new movie “Fall” is a survival-thriller about two young women, Becky and...
Surveillance is pervasive: Yes, you are being watched, even if no...
Peter Krapp, University of California, Irvine
The U.S. has the largest number of surveillance cameras per person in the...
West Elm Caleb and the rise of the TikTok tabloid
Jenna Drenten, Loyola University Chicago
Can you believe Makayla was dropped from Bama Rush? Do you think Couch Guy...
Fast computers, 5G networks and radar that passes through walls are...
Aly Fathy, University of Tennessee
Within seconds after reaching a city, earthquakes can cause immense destruction: Houses crumble, high-rises...
Companies accused of crimes get more digital privacy rights than people...
Sarah Esther Lageson, Rutgers University - Newark and Elizabeth Chiarello, Saint Louis University
Corporations increasingly receive the same rights as people. Now, it seems,...
High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, American University
Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by...
Webcams in nursing home rooms may deter elder abuse – but...
Clara Berridge, University of Washington and Karen Levy, Cornell University
Mary Ann Papp’s daughter Lisa was worried about her 75-year-old mother.
A foot infection seemed to...
What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after...
Stephen Groening, University of Washington
Seventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under a pseudonym George Orwell, published “1984,” now generally considered a classic of dystopian...
EXPLORING NATURE
Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate...
Antonios Mamalakis, University of Virginia
Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in...
