{"364301":{"#nid":"364301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Orwell vs. Tolkien on Surveillance","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAaron Santesso is featured in a new film project, \u201cDo Not Track\u201d by Snitow-Kaufman Productions, on privacy, big data, and surveillance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/08\/europe\/charlie-hebdo-attack-timeline\/\u0022\u003ERecent events\u003C\/a\u003E in France have led the directors of the documentary to pre-release a segment of the film which addresses government surveillance and why it fails, framed within a comparison between Orwell and Tolkien.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESantesso discusses surveillance through a literary lens with David Rosen, an English professor at Trinity College, with whom he co-authored \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/book.asp?isbn=9780300155419\u0022\u003EThe Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood\u003C\/a\u003E.\u201d A winner of the 45\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E Annual James Russel Lowell Prize, the book spans nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, examining the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together as kindred modern practices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAaron Santesso, Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, specializes in seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature. His research focuses on ethics, law and legal studies, literature, philosophy, policy, and social movements.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAaron Santesso is featured in a new film project, \u201cDo Not Track\u201d by Snitow-Kaufman Productions, on privacy, big data, and surveillance.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aaron Santesso is featured in a new film project, \u201cDo Not Track\u201d by Snitow-Kaufman Productions, on privacy, big data, and surveillance."}],"uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2015-01-14 11:58:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:50","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"364341":{"id":"364341","type":"image","title":"Aaron Santesso","body":null,"created":"1449245805","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:45","changed":"1475895100","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:40","alt":"Aaron Santesso","file":{"fid":"201637","name":"santesso_film_still.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/santesso_film_still_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/santesso_film_still_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":533617,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/santesso_film_still_0.png?itok=LwwEzAs4"}}},"media_ids":["364341"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/116495284","title":"Watch the clip"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1486","name":"government"},{"id":"167617","name":"surveillance"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAaron Santesso\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:aaron.santesso@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eaaron.santesso@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}