6th international Surveillance & Society conference

Datum/Zeit
Date(s) - 24/04/2014 - 26/04/2014
Ganztägig

Veranstaltungsort
University of Barcelona

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Surveillance: Ambiguities & Asymmetries

Contemporary surveillance is characterised by ambiguities and asymmetries. Surveillance results from different desires and rationales: control, governance, security, profit, efficiency but also care, empowerment, resistance, and play. Furthermore it can have both positive and negative outcomes for individuals and these may lead to intended or unintended consequences. Surveillance is never neutral. Surveillance is always about power and that power is increasingly asymmetric. Surveillance practices are also changing and as ‘smart’ surveillance systems proliferate utilising and generating ‘Big Data’ new forms of ambiguity and asymmetry arise. In this context the conference wishes to explore the following key themes:

KEY THEMES INCLUDE

• Smart surveillance
• Democracy and surveillance
• Resilience and surveillance
• Cultures and histories of surveillance
• Representations of Surveillance in Film/Art/Literature/Media
• Surveillance and empowerment
• Surveillance and human rights
• Surveillance in knowledge economies
• Regulating surveillance
• Surveillance, privacy and data-protection
• Participatory surveillance and police surveillance of online social networks
• Surveillance, games and play
• Theories of surveillance
• Ethics of surveillance
• Gender and surveillance
• Algorithmic surveillance
• Politics and governance of surveillance
• Surveillance and big data
• STS approaches to surveillance
• Surveillance and sports
• Resistance to surveillance
• Non-technological surveillance
• Surveillance and mobility