This website has 6 great radio clips that you can listen to, all relating to the topics of privacy and surveillance. The clip of Kevin Haggerty talking about Surveillance Society I found to be particularly helpful and interesting!
This piece describes how genre is effective in reading and other forms of rhetoric. It can allow readers to get deeper into text, and understand the form of communication on paper. Similarly to genres in movies and TV, genre in written works allow a reader to get the sense of what is "going on". Reading more and more, a reader is able to understand and decipher which genre is which. They also enable readers to connect emotionally to a text, and experience feelings of the writer/characters.