7th biennial Surveillance & Society conference

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Date(s) - 21/04/2016 - 23/04/2016
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Surveillance: Power, Performance and Trust

Zitat aus dem CfP

Surveillance in the 21^st Century is characterised by performance, risk scoring, ubiquitous data collection and analysis, algorithms as well as intersecting and blurring power relations. As such surveillance increasingly becomes an integral part of everyday life and professional environments, symbolised by concepts such as the smart city, industry 4.0, smart homes and wearable computing. These new sorting and controlling practices will prompt new forms of visibility, new modes of power, as well as unintended consequences and cumulative disadvantages. Scholars and other concerned individuals face numerous questions: How will these new emerging cultures of surveillance interact with democracy, society and citizenship? What impacts and interdependencies can be observed? How should societies respond to these practices? How do people cope with current features and practices as well as with the historical legacies of surveillance regimes? What role does surveillance play in social theories?

In this context the conference wishes to explore the following key themes:

Key themes may include, but are not limited to:

• Democracy and surveillance
• Surveillance and everyday life
• Cultures and histories of surveillance
• Surveillance and digital/social media
• Value sensitive design and PETs
• Philosophy and theory of surveillance
• Ethics and Trust in and of surveillance
• Regulation, politics and governance of surveillance
• Algorithmic surveillance and big data
• Resistance to surveillance
• Non-technological surveillance