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FOCUS QUESTIONS: Unit 3 Drama 2012 As part of the process of getting you thinking about your ensembles you need to answer these questions and return them to me either electronically or in hard copy by Monday Feb. 27th. The structure for your task will be varied and cover a number of issues and these questions will allow you to bring some ideas to your group when it is formed. There will be room for your ensemble group to interpret everyone’s ideas and create dramatic forms as well as develop characters. For now, these are just to begin the process and prepare you for the task.

1. We live in a society where just about everyone is ‘plugged in’ to some form of media: via tv, computers, ipods, phones...what else? Do we have a choice about this? Why or why not? What happens if you choose not to participate as a digital citizen?

2. In the age of wireless technology, Google Earth, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr etc, is there such a thing as ‘private space’ anymore? Is private space important?



3. Find out about the novel ‘1984’ by George Orwell – story, key themes, overview etc. Read it if you can! Is there a ‘big brother’ in our society? What does the concept of ‘Big Brother’ mean in Orwell’s perception of the future?



4. What do you think the world look like in 100 years if technology keeps moving as quickly as it is? How will our society change - for better or for worse?

5. Find out how many people in the world do NOT have a computer or regular access to a computer. Where do these people live? How are their lives affected by this – for better or worse in your opinion?

6. Who decides what we watch/listen to/consume? How so?

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">7. List some films, tv shows, books news events that deal with issues of: privacy, media, computers, reality/virtual reality, surveillance.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">8. How do we define/measure reality? What is ‘virtual reality? What aspects of virtual reality do you experience in your own life now?

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">9. What could forms of virtual reality look like in the future?

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__<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">2012 Unit 3 Drama Ensemble Task __ //__<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Ignorance is Bliss __//__<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">- Further Reference Material __
 * http:// www.fastcompany.com/node/1683302/print**

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">In the book, Inner Party member O'Brien describes the Party's vision of the future: <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always—do not forget this, Winston—always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">—Part III, Chapter III, //Nineteen Eighty-Four//

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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">[|John Perry Barlow]

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">[|Albert Einstein]

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Modern governments today commonly perform mass surveillance of their citizens, explaining that they believe that it is necessary to protect them from dangerous groups such as <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|terrorists] <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|criminals] <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, or political <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|subversives] <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and to maintain <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|social control] <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mass surveillance has been widely criticized on several grounds such as violations of <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|privacy] <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> rights, illegality, and for preventing political and social freedoms, which some fear will ultimately lead to a <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|totalitarian state] <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> where political dissent is crushed by [|COINTELPR] <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|O] <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">-like programs. Such a state may also be referred to as an <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Electronic Police State] <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mass surveillance **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is the pervasive <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|surveillance] <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> of an entire population, or a substantial fraction thereof.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">[|R. Buckminster Fuller]

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">[|Clive James]

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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">ARTICLE ON MASS SUREVEILLANCE: <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">[]


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Possible Areas for further research: __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Past technological discoveries and cultural impact
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Government surveillance in other countries- past and present (think East Berlin, S. Africa, Germany..)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Totalitarian states
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Current privacy laws
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Technology of the future- what is coming soon?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Targeted advertising
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Julian Assange and Wiki leaks
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tracking us via GPS, chips, retina scanning…
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Identity Theft
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Censorship (e.g China)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Media ‘addiction’- consumption like a drug?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Companies that own information
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Murdoch/World News leaks
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Past historical events where government has controlled/censored the population (Germany, Russia, Witch trials, Puritans in America, S Africa, Crusades…) and the effect of this


 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You also can look for: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">verbatim texts (e.g interviews)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">news reports and opinion pieces
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Other art works and images
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Poems, songs (write your own?)

<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">AND MANY MORE!!!!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Other film texts: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Source Code
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Inception
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Blade Runner
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Children of Men
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I Robot
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">2001 A Space Odyssey
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Minority Report
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Gattaca
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Truman Show
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Matrix
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Social Network
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Surrogate