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Surveillance

You are your grades

Submitted by LaurenMitchell on Sun, 2008-05-04 21:43. | | | | |

A photograph of a close-up of a woman holding binoculars up to her eyes.  The reflection in the lenses shows students sitting in a classroom.

This New York Times article discusses the implications of new online systems that allow parents to monitor their children’s grades and attendance.

Google Earth in Bahrain

Google Earth and Bahrain: Surveillance for All

Google Earth image of one of Bahrain's islands.

Surveillance

A surveillance sign that reads Surveillance is not what first comes to mind when you think of visual rhetoric. Although images collected via the various forms of surveillance are often perceived as irrefutable evidence and therefore not rhetorical, surveillance images, like photographs, are as rhetorical as any other piece of evidence.

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