Topic: do you work better when you are competing or collaborating? Provide examples and reasons as to why you feel this way.
1- Ability
2-adapt
3-agreement
4-assist
5-collaborate
6-compete
7-conflict
8-cooperate
9-delegate
10- dependent
11-engage
12-expectation
13-Fasilitate
14-goal
15-interaction
16-motivation
17-oppsition
18-paticipate
19-partner
20-produce
21 – Reinforce
22-resist
23-self-reliant
24-strive
25-struggle
26-success
27-support
28-reamwork
29-unity
Surveillance Capitalism
Discussion Questions
American Capitalism is increasingly starting to look like a police/surveillance state that is run for profit and the benefit of those with wealth. Teachers are being turned into prison guards; students are monioring and reporting on teachers, smart phones and other devices are reporting our vital personal information (sometimes without our knowledge and other times because we willingly give it up). Does this concern you on any level?
Do you think it is possible to have a system of social organization like capitalism without the negative aspects asserting themselves in such a dominant way (i.e. exploitation, aggressive policing, total surveillance)?
How might draw from both Goffman and Foucault’s theoretical frameworks to explain these contemporary developments?
Will surveillance capitalism become the dominant logic of capital accumulation in our time, or will it be succeeded by yet another mode of capitalist accumulation?
What is the solution? What might you as an individual begin to do different now with regard to limiting the exposure of your personal data?
