Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective

DRPC Reading Lists

Learning More About Biometric Technology: A DRPC Reading List

Cultivated by Charles Woods

This reading list takes an intersectional approach to introducing readers to the privacy and surveillance issues created through the use of some biometric technologies broadly, including wearables and genetic technologies.

  1. Crenshaw, K. (2017). On intersectionality: Essential writings. New York, NY: The New Press.
  2. Chow-White, P. (2012). Genomic Databases and an Emerging Digital Divide in Biotechnology. In Nakamura, L., & Chow-White, P. (Eds.). Race after the Internet (pp. 271-290). New York: Routledge.
  3. Roberts, D. (2011). Fatal invention: How science, politics, and big business re-create race 
    in the twenty-first century. New York: The New Press.
  4. Tham, J. & Duin, A. H. (2020). Digital literacy in an age of pervasive surveillance A case of wearable technology. In Beck E. & Campos, E.H. (Eds.) Privacy matters: Conversations about surveillance within and beyond the Classroom (pp. 93-112). Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado.
  5. Van Ness, L. (2020, February 20). Dna databases are boon to police but menace to privacy, critics say. Pew Research Center. Retrieved from: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/02/20/dna-databases-are-boon-to-police-but-menace-to-privacy-critics-say.

Getting Started with Privacy Policies: A DRPC Reading List

Cultivated by Charles Woods

This reading list serves as an introduction to studying the privacy policy, a genre which makes up the Terms of Service (ToS) of most digital spaces. Readers will gain critical context about privacy policies, learn how to analyze privacy policies, and identify strategies for how to integrate privacy policies into the classroom.

  1. Auxier, B., Rainie, L., Anderson, M., Perrin, A., Kumar, M., and Turner, E. (2019, November 15).  Americans and privacy: Concerned, confused, and feeling lack of control over their personal information. Pew Research Center. Retrieved from: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/.
  2. Beck, E. (2016). Who is Tracking You? A Rhetorical Framework for Evaluating Surveillance and Privacy Practices. In Apostel, S. & Folk, M. (Eds.). Establishing and evaluating digital ethos and online credibility, (pp. 66-84). Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global.
  3. Hern, A. (2015, June 15). I read all the small print on the internet and it made me want to die. The Guardian. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/15/i-read-all-the-small-print-on-the-internet. 
  4. Waldman, A. E. (2018). Privacy, notice, and design. 21 Stanford Technology Law Review, 21 (1), pp. 74-127.
  5. Woods, Charles & Wilson, Noah. (2021). The rhetorical implications of data aggregations: Becoming a dividual in a data-driven world. The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, 19, https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-rhetorical-implications-of-data-aggregation-becoming-a-dividual-in-a-data-driven-world/