Big Brother is Watching!!!

Resources

The following site is an excellent resource for 1984 information: Newspeak

George Orwell Resources

Privacy

These web resources focus on privacy issues in our own nation and abroad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_act#Sneak-and-Peek_searches

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4759727&sourceCode=gaw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance#Involuntary_mass_surveillance

Big Brother

Were these brutal dictators the model for Big Brother?

Look familiar?

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/stalin/

http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mao.html

Propaganda

Some possible historical examples of propaganda use include Hitler and the Nazi Party’s use of it to gain power and the spread of McCarthyism or the Red Scare throughout the nation in the 1950’s. The site on Propaganda is a good one for resources. Media industry plays a large role in the perpetuation of propaganda, so methods of transmitting information to large amounts of people should also be considered.

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