Surveillance Education

Nolan Higdon is a founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, Project Censored National Judge, author, and lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Higdon's areas of concentration include podcasting, digital culture, news media history, propaganda, and critical media literacy. All of Higdon's work is available at Substack (https://nolanhigdon.substack.com/). He is the author of The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education (2020) and Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy (Routledge, 2022), and co-author of The Media And Me: A Guide To Critical Media Literacy For Young People (2022). Higdon is a regular source of expertise for CBS, NBC, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students. Recognising that the use of digital technologies will persist, the authors instead offer practical ways to ameliorate their impact.

Introduction 1. The Legality of School Surveillance 2. The Culture of School Surveillance 3. The Harm in School Surveillance 4. Resisting Surveillance Schooling