Enjoy your Fall Break Go Tigers . . . Beat the Jayhawks

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Enjoy your Fall Break(Go Tigers . . . Beat the
Jayhawks!)

• Today (Nov 19)
• Special not-to-be-missed Guest Lecture!
• Friday LAB (Nov 21)
• NO LAB SESSION (go to library and work on
  your final essay . . . ROFLMAO!!!)

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Controversy o the Day

• Sisterhood of the Traveling Controversies
• Stacey Akers
• Heather Frayn
• Jessica Hager
• Courtney McClanahan
• Sally McVey

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Moving On . . . Whos up Monday following
break?

• The Sunkist Mermaids
• Corley Koprowski
• Katlyn Niehaus
• Jasmine Vishay

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Every Break You Take

• The Emerging Role of Technology in Workplace
  Surveillance
• November 19, 2008

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On the Agenda

• Live! from the 1984
• Back to the Future with Orwell and Linsberger
• The Hawthorne Effect
• Working Under the Gaze
• Panopticism
• Anybody Out There?
• Technology
• Candid Camera
• MS Blood Pressure?
• RFID

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1984

• Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous
  system. At any moment the tension inside you was
  liable to translate itself into some visible
  symptom.
• (Orwell, 1949).

The Orwellian Office is upon us (Lilley, 2006)
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TRON

• Good Guy

• Bad Guy

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The Hawthorne Effect

• a short-term improvement caused by observing
  worker performance
• Originated from studies done in the late 20s
  early 30s on factory workers
• A particular study noted that as lights were made
  brighter, workers would become more efficient
• What explains workers also becoming more
  efficient when lights were dimmed?

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Panopticism

• The Panopticon was designed by Jeremy Bentham in
  the late 18th Century, but was never actually
  built.
• Panopticism is a tactic of placing workers (or
  prisoners) in areas of maximum visibility so that
  they have no way of telling whether they are
  actually being watched.

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The Technological Gaze

• Surveillance Cameras
• Biometrics
• Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID)

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Monitored Locomotion A Necessary Evil or a
Violation of Trust?

• A The CN Railway SHOULD be able to
  install hidden cameras
• B The CN Railways should NOT be able to
  install hidden cameras.

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MS Panic Attack??

• Microsoft make plans for a computer system that
  links workers to their computers via wireless
  sensors that measure their metabolism (Mostrous
  Brown, 2008).
• The system would allow managers to monitor
  employees performance by measuring heart rate,
  body temperature, movement, facial expression and
  blood pressure (Mostrous Brown, 2008).

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RFID Radio Frequency Identification Device

• Safety precaution?
• Means of convenience?
• Means of control?

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Is it Your Body or is it Company Property?

• A Companies SHOULD be able to require
  employees to get a clip implant, if it were for
  safety purposes.
• B Companies should NOT be able to require
  employees to get a clip implant, even if it
  were for safety purposes.

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Private Eye

• VIP Investigations ,Inc.
• http//www.spyvip.com/services.htm

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I said snooping not Snoopy!!