6th Biannual Conference
Surveillance Studies Network
SURVEILLANCE: AMBIGUITIES AND ASYMMETRIES
Barcelona, 24th – 26th April 2014
http://www.ssn2014.net/
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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
The 6th international Surveillance & Society conference hosted by the University of Barcelona and supported by the Surveillance Studies Network.
http://www.ssn2014.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/booklet-20140312.pdf
Date and time: 24th April 2014. (10:30‐12:00)
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 1 – Security I Electronic Surveillance.
CYBERVIGILANCIA Y PODER POLITICO.
Cada tecnología encierra en su génesis una práctica ideológica
