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Books

Please include WorldCat link.

Fiction

• Doctorow, Cory. (Multiple titles).

• Eggers, Dave. The Circle; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/962422592

• Maughan, Tim. Infinite Detail; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1044776297

• Anderson, Poul. "Sam Hall" (short story); http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?55890

Non-fiction

• Angwin, Julia. Dragnet Nation: a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/987779139

• Bazzell, Michael. Extreme Privacy: What it takes to disappear in America; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111909948

• Berardi, Franco "Bifo". After the Future; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/669754829

• Bridges, Khiara. The Poverty of Privacy Rights; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/960711727

• Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927159235

• Bucher, Taina. If... Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1020639665

• Coleman, Gabriella. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: the many faces of Anonymous; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/943012762

• Dubrofsky, Rachel and Shoshana Magnet. Feminist Surveillance Studies; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/899275437

• Eubanks, Virginia. Automating Inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1019056202

• Haggerty, KD and RV Ericson. The Surveillant Assemblage; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/201507312

• Haraway, Donna. A Cyborg Manifesto; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091311575

• Hennig, Nicole. Privacy and Security Online: best practices for cybersecurity; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1031483480

• Lanier, Jaron. Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Right Now; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076509683

• Lewis, Sarah Jamie. Queer Privacy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1004830244

• Lovelock, James. Novacene: the coming age of hyperintelligence; https://www.worldcat.org/title/novacene-the-coming-age-of-hyperintelligence/oclc/1104066697&referer=brief_results

• Luna, JJ. How to Be Invisible: a step-by-step guide to protecting your assets, your identity, and your life; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43445639

• Noble, Safiya. Algorithms of Oppression: how search engines reinforce racism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/987591529

• Odell, Jenny. How To Do Nothing: Resisting the attention economy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085144412

• O'Neil, Kathy. Weapons of Math Destruction; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/965474817

• Payton, Theresa. and Ted Claypoole. Privacy in the Age of Big Data: recognizing threats, defending your rights, and protecting your Family; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1100662031

• Richards, Neil. Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1002859160

• Scheer, Robert. They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905686226

• Srnicek, Nick. Platform Capitalism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956434913

• Vaidyanathan, Siva. AntiSocialMedia: how facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1088927430

• Vaidyanathan, Siva. The Googlization of Everything: and why we should worry; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/799028822

• Wu, Tim. The Attention Merchants: from the daily newspaper to social media, how our time and attention is harvested and sold; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1039630624

• Wu, Tim. The Master Switch: the rise and fall of information empires; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/907029339

• Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1098195036

Films

• Big list from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_surveillance

Fiction

• Assassination Nation

• The Circle

• The Conversation (with Gene Hackman)

• Enemy of the State

• The Last Enemy

• Modern Family episodes "Connection Lost" (Season 6, Episode 16), and "iSpy" (Season 5, episode 14)

• The Net

• The Truman Show

Documentary

• The Great Hack

• The Internet’s Own Boy

Music

• 2 Chainz: Feds Watching
• Anais Mitchell: 1984
• Anderson.Paak: Tints
• ANOHNI: Watch Me
• Barenaked Ladies: Get In Line
• Bauhaus: The Spy in the Cab
• The Beatles: Everybody's Got Something to Hide
• Beauty Pill: Quote Devout Unquote
• Belgrado: 1000 Spektakli
• Black Sabbath: Electric Eye
• Blondie: One Way or Another
• Bruce Springsteen: Brilliant Disguise
• The Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star
• The Clash: Know Your Rights
• Clay Aiken: Invisible
• Crass: Big A, Little A
• Criminal Code: Surveillance
• Dead Kennedys: Shrink
• Dead Prez: Police State
• Death Grips: I've Seen Footage
• Eurythmics: Ministry of Love
• The Feelies: Everybody's Got Something to Hide
• Ghost Cop: One Weird Trick
• Hidden Citizens: Somebody's Watching Me
• Homeboy Sandman & Edan: #NeverUsetheInternetAgain
• Humanwine: Big Brother
• Ice T (With Jello Biafra): Freedom of Speech
• Kacey Musgraves: Biscuits
• Kojey Radical: No Photos
• Laurie Anderson: O Superman (For Massenet)
• Magazine: Definitive Gaze
• M.I.A: The Message
• Minutement: Shit You Hear At Parties
• Mobb Deep: Temperature's Rising
• New Model Army: 225
• Nots: Surveillance Veil
• The Police: Every Breath You Take
• Priests: Not Perceived
• Radiohead: Fitter, Happier
• Robyn Hitchcock: I Watch the Cars
• Rockwell: Somebody's Watching Me
• Second Still: Spiders & Spies
• Spectres: Remote Viewing
• Star One: Two Plus Two Equals Five
• Superorganism: Everybody Wants to Be Famous
• Terrible Feelings: The Devil's Watching
• Diät: We
• WTCHCRFT: Surveillance
• Van Morrison: Just Like Greta
• Yo La Tengo: Nothing to Hide

Those interested might also enjoy Jonathan Coulton's concept album and accompanying graphic novel, Solid State: [1]