regarding todays class a couple of things were brought up that we should really know about. the first link here is to the article which appeared in the guardian last week about how sensitive documdents were leaked via wikileaks about how the us ignored torture in iraq. you can read the article here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/22/iraq-war-logs-military-leaks
also brought up today was David Lyon, whose a professor of sociology and a leading expert in the field of surveillance and information society. he's wrote quite alot about surveillance society, ive put a link here which has a short review of his book "The Electronic Eye, The Rise of Surveillance Society". It also gives a brief background on David Lyon at the bottom of the article as well.
http://www.mightystudents.com/essay/David.Lyon.Electronic.51934
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