Stasis Grid

Author Info

Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Action

Jurisdiction

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

What should be
done about X?

Who is responsible?

1. Cooke Tim
CEO of Apple.
Letter to
Customers

Popular source

It is harmful for a
backdoor to be
made into
smartphones.

What should
be done about
the need for
encryption?

Does the FBI

want to be
responsible for
a major privacy
breakdown?

2 Clark,
Michelle
schoolteacher
Ted Talk

Popular source,
Ted Talk

3. Ghitis, Frida
CNN
Opinion Article
about the NSA

Popular/govern
ment

4. Glenn
Greenwald and
Ewen Macaskill
Guardian
article about
the NSAs tools

Popular source,
The guardian

Does this
powerful tool
actually exist?
Or is it just a
NSA bluff

5.Jason
Breslow, PBS
Expository
piece about the
NSA

Scholarly/popul
ar

Phone records
can no longer
be stored by the
NSA

A key to data
is a piece of
information
that unlocks
security
protocols.
Does online
privacy
actually exist?

Does online
activity create a
false sense of
accomplishmen
t?
Is Americas
electronic
spying causing
international
rifts?

The Patriot Act

expiring has
crippled the
NSA in many
aspects

Need to
monitor our
digital
activity.

Spying has
always been
around but is it
more harmful
nowadays?

The US needs
to get their
spying under
control

The NSA should

not have this kind
of power

What do we
do about the
NSAs
powerful
analyzing
tool?

It may be good
for citizens that
the NSA has less
power, but
oversea threats
still need

The NSA is
responsible for
anything that
they may find

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monitoring

Author Info

Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Action

Jurisdiction

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

What should be
done about X?

Who is responsible?

6. Emma and
Charlotte
Robertson
Article about
digital
footprint

popular

Is a digital
footprint a
character
reference?

Do Google
searches make
employers less
likely to hire
people?

Is it fair to judge
someone off of
his or her digital
footprint?

Everyone is
responsible for
what they post
online

7.
Brown,Alex
Case study
Clapper vs
ACLU

scholarly

Mass surveillance
is unfair

NSA and govt.

should be held
responsible for
invasion of
privacy

8. Orwell,
George
1984

Popular, fiction
novel

This case study

decided
whether the
govt. could
gather metadata
from telephone
companies.
Constant
surveillance
leads to an
uprising of the
people being
watched

Big Brother
is watching

The
government is
responsible for
the slavery of
their citizens

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9. Joyce, Daniel
Commentary
published in a
law journal

scholarly

10. Leahy et al.

Many
congressional
figures takes on
the PATRIOT
Act

scholarly

11. Timm,
Trevor
Article on
smartphones
being used to
spy on people

popular

12. Matthew
Rozsa
Article about the
expiration of the
PATRIOT Act

popular

13.
Thornburgh,Dic
k
an article on
civil liberties
and the Patriot
Act

scholarly

Do online
human rights
exist?

This act does

not cause a lack
of privacy.

Is it fair to
always have
someone
watching you?

We need to
close the
windows
into our
private lives

this act is not

harmful, people
misunderstand all
of the
circumstances

Nothing
should be
done about the
act, we
worked hard
to draft it.

SMART =
surveillance
marketed as
revolutionary
technology
Certain aspects
of the
PATRIOT Act
still are in play

Devices must
be encrypted
enough so the
FBI cannot get
into them
The parts still
active are still
harmful to the
privacy of
merican Citizens

The Patriot Act

is a suppression
of basic civil
liberties

By suppressing
our basic civil
liberties, we are
also suppressing
our citizens

Companies
should not
allow the govt
to access their
products
Americans
need to be
educated on
what parts of
the Act are still
active

Cannot allow
our civil
liberties to be
compromised

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14. Preibusch,

Scholarly

PRISM is
another tool
used by the
NSA to track
metadata

Knowledge
about PRISM
did not change
US users web
activity

Scholarly

Does privacy
even exist
anymore?
Should we
care?

Are we more
secure by just
giving up our
privacy?

Soren
Article
discussing web
habits after the
actions of
Edward
Snowden
15. Warwick,
Shelly.

Article on post
9/11 privacy

Internet users
need to be more
aware of privacy
techniques to
avoid PRISM

Should we
push back on
the govt. or
just get used
to the mass
surveillance?