Argumentative Synthesis Assignment
This assignment creates an opportunity for you to practice research and demonstrate the writing skills you have developed this semester while engaging with important issues.
Your task is to write a 5-to-5.25-page argument concerning surveillance, privacy, and digital identity. You may wish to consider these questions or others that you formulate: What are the benefits of surveillance and for who? What is the value of privacy? What is the importance of digital identity? Use your anecdotal experience, assigned readings, and independent research to make sense of these topics. Your essay should have a clear point/explanation/thesis and be organized with great care. Use MLA conventions to format your paper. Use at least 5 external sources. 250 points.
Suggested Readings or Source Material:
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Journalism:
No Place to Hide
by Glenn Greenwald
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Journalism Focused on Surveillance and Privacy Issues:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/
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Academic/Theoretical Excerpt
:
http://foucault.info/documents/disciplineandpunish/foucault.disciplineandpunish.panopticism.html
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Novel:
1984
by George Orwell
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Novel:
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
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Novel:
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
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Lecture:
https://www.ted.com/talks/hubertus_knabe_the_dark_secrets_of_a_surveillance_state?language=en
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Speech
:
http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters?language=en
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Documentary:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-secrets/
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Civil Liberties Organization:
https://www.eff.org/
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Film:
Rear Window
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Film:
Minority Report
*
Film and Graphic Novel
:
V for Vendetta
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Documentary in Theaters:
Citizenfour
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1. Argumentative Synthesis Assignment
This assignment creates an opportunity for you to practice
research and demonstrate the writing skills you have developed
this semester while engaging with important issues.
Your task is to write a 5-to-5.25-page argument concerning
surveillance, privacy, and digital identity. You may wish to
consider these questions or others that you formulate: What are
the benefits of surveillance and for who? What is the value of
privacy? What is the importance of digital identity? Use your
anecdotal experience, assigned readings, and independent
research to make sense of these topics. Your essay should have
a clear point/explanation/thesis and be organized with great
care. Use MLA conventions to format your paper. Use at least 5
external sources. 250 points.
Suggested Readings or Source Material:
*
Journalism:
No Place to Hide
by Glenn Greenwald
*
Journalism Focused on Surveillance and Privacy Issues:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/
*
Academic/Theoretical Excerpt
:
http://foucault.info/documents/disciplineandpunish/foucault.dis
ciplineandpunish.panopticism.html
*
Novel:
1984
by George Orwell
2. *
Novel:
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
*
Novel:
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
*
Lecture:
https://www.ted.com/talks/hubertus_knabe_the_dark_secrets_of
_a_surveillance_state?language=en
*
Speech
:
http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matter
s?language=en
*
Documentary:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-
secrets/
*
Civil Liberties Organization:
https://www.eff.org/
*
Film:
Rear Window
*
Film:
Minority Report
*
Film and Graphic Novel
:
V for Vendetta
