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The global network for surveillance studies research. Surveillance & Society journal https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society, conferences, workshops, mentoring, prizes & more. Join us here: https://surveillance-studies.net
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We're delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 Surveillance Book Prize is: Profiles and Plotlines, by Katherine D. Johnston (University of Iowa Press).

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Our January newsletter is out! Read about Syrian surveillance revelation after Assad's fall, India’s draft data protection rules, Latin America’s 2024 overview of AI Integration, @oiioxford.bsky.social's Global Southing Internet workshop & New OA Book on Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder that you have a week to go to submit abstracts for #SSN2025 in Ottawa, on #surveillance and #AI...

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Surveillance & Society / SSN is looking for new Associate Editors for 3-year terms, to help spread our article review workload. Associate Editors are also members of the Network & Editorial Board which manages the journal and SSN. For more details, see here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

SSN and Surveillance & Society are looking for self-nominations for a new Communications Editor to join our board, run SSN's website, blog and more... deadline: January 6th 2025. #surveillance #academicsky ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

📣 Announcement 📣 We've extended the deadline for submissions to the "Literature and Surveillance" Special Issue of Surveillance&Society (@survstudiesnet.bsky.social)! New deadline is January 12, 2025, and I'm happy to answer questions about submissions. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

2024 year in review! We were very proud of this issue. Many thanks to the journal’s team, and especially to @torinmonahan.bsky.social for much support, patience, and guidance through the process!

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Join our team! 🤗 Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World. Please follow the link for applications. We have a small budget to compensate for the hours.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Our first newsletter is up! Read about some cool new tools, the false promise of biometrics by @lhreports.bsky.social, automation on the move by @algorithmwatch.bsky.social, listen to a podcast on Afrotopia, learn about India-Isreal AI weapon systems collaboration, & maybe decide to join our team!

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

2024 in review. SSN and Surveillance & Society have had a great year! This was the 22nd Volume of S&S, and we also ran our 10th international conference. Let's start with Surveillance & Society. Under @torinmonahan.bsky.social's brilliant stewardship, we published 4 issues of the journal...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder! Less than a month to go until the abstract deadline for the SSN2025 Canada/USA Workshop on #Surveillance and #AI...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

New article: "Abstracting Injustice" in which we explore how the neorepublican concepts of domination and antipower can contribute to surveillance studies & technology development and deployment within the criminal justice system ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... @survstudiesnet.bsky.social

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

In "Synthetic Data, Synthetic Media, and Surveillance," @empo11on.bsky.social and I address the lack of attention to the surveillance implications of synthetic data and synthetic media in surveillance literature. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... @survstudiesnet.bsky.social

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

SSN and Surveillance & Society are looking for self-nominations for a new Communications Editor to join our board, run SSN's website, blog and more... deadline: January 6th 2025. #surveillance #academicsky ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

A fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society is out now, the last one of 2024. This open issue offers six original articles, a special Dialogue Section on the surveillance dimensions of “Synthetic Data,” and two book reviews. #surveillance #data #academicsky ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Surveillance & Society / SSN is looking for new Associate Editors for 3-year terms, to help spread our article review workload. Associate Editors are also members of the Network & Editorial Board which manages the journal and SSN. For more details, see here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Somehow (seriously: how?) it's December, which means there's one month left to submit work for the "Literature and Surveillance" special issue of Surveillance & Society (the journal of @survstudiesnet.bsky.social)! Happy to field questions about submissions!

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Re-upping this call for abstracts - deadline: 10 January 2025.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder that this is happening today (13th November) at 5:00pm CST...

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Call for Papers: "Watching the Watchers: Public Oversight of Digital Surveillance in Africa", special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, edited by Jane Duncan and Sarah Chiumbu. Abstract deadline: 16th December 2024 (final submission: May 2025) #surveillance #internet #Africa

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

We are calling for abstracts for the SSN2025 Canada/USA Workshop on #Surveillance and #AI, to be held at the University of Ottawa in the last week of May, 2025 (exact dates tbc). Limited places! Early Career Researchers encouraged! Deadline: 10 January 2025. surveillance-studies.net/conference/

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Join Fareed Ben Youssef, Torin Monahan, Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe and David Murakami Wood on Wednesday 11/13 at 5:00pm CST for a conversation about The Conversation, on the #film's 50th anniversary! #Cinema, #Surveillance and #paranoia in the #USA. Link to register: texastech.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments