Surveillance Education: Navigating the Conspicuous Absence of Privacy in Schools

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.

Nolan Higdon is a Lecturer in History and Media Studies at California State University, East Bay, USA. His research explores podcasting, digital culture, news media history and propaganda, and critical media literacy. 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). He is also a founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, a Project Censored National Judge, and a contributor to Savage Minds.

Allison Butler is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Media Literacy Certificate Program in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She is also Co-Director of the Mass Media Literacy non-profit organization, where she develops and runs training programmes for teachers covering critical media literacy in K-12 schools, Vice President on the Board of the Media Freedom Foundation, and a spokesperson for Project Censored. Her research focuses on critical media literacy and critiques of surveillance technologies in education. She is the author of Educating Media Literacy: The Need for Teacher Education in Critical Media Literacy (2020), and co-author of Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning: Interactive Explorations for Students and Teachers and The Media and Me: A Guide To Critical Media Literacy For Young People (2022).