Surveillance Studies Network
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- Surveillance & Society has published a great new issue—w/ articles on data leaks, ceasefire monitoring, campus #protests, & much more! The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
- 🎉 We are excited to announce the 2024 winners of our #Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher prize for publications in our journal, Surveillance & Society 🎉 Check out their fantastic papers here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... Congratulations to the winners!!
- The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for its 2026 Arts Prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations is August 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
- The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award. The deadline for receipt of books from the publisher is October 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
- 📢 Our latest blog post is live! 'Anyone Who’s Watching Can See That You’re Watching, Too' by @corinnejones.bsky.social - about the relationship b/w #consumption, #visibility labours, & social media’s #surveillance economy. Find this & our other great contributions here: medium.com/surveillance...
- PUBLISHED: New open issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: tinyurl.com/9c473scz
- 📢 Our latest blog post is live: 'Contesting Surveillance: What Tunisian Imams Taught Me' by @fabriziol.bsky.social - a discussion of #surveillance, #security, violent extremism, and radicalisation. Find this great contribution (and check out all of our others!) here: medium.com/surveillance...
- 📢 Our latest blog post is out: 'Styling the #Surveillance Self in #Fashion Media' by Louisa Rogers - a fascinating exploration of security and surveillance in fashion photography. Read it (& all our others) here: medium.com/surveillance...
- We are excited to announce the 11th Biennial #Surveillance Studies Network Conference happening 9th-12th June 2026, in Lille, France. It includes a #PhD Colloquium. #SSN2026 is hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social ETHICS & ISTC. Look out for more info soon... And get those abstracts ready!
- 📢 Our latest blog post is out: 'Scatological Humour and the Absent #Anthropology of #Privacy' by Vita Peacock - examining how scatological references are used satirically to make statements about contemporary #digital #surveillance. Read it (& all our others) here: medium.com/surveillance...
- We're pleased to share our latest blog post: 'When Watching Each Other Becomes a Matter of Survival' by Camilo Tamayo Gomez - analysing mutual #surveillance, #power & #control during long-term kidnappings. You can read it (and check out all of our others) here: medium.com/surveillance...
- 📢 Excited to share our latest blog post: 'Squeeveillance' by Garfield Benjamin - a discussion on domestic #surveillance, #Ring doorbell media, and the power of #cuteness in the surveillant assemblage You can read it here (make sure to check out the other posts too!): medium.com/surveillance...
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- Reposted by Surveillance Studies NetworkHuge thanks to @marielgm.bsky.social for writing a review of The Walls Have Eyes for Surveillance & Society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social (open access too!)
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies NetworkThe editorial „sketches some of the key dangers presented by the second Trump presidency“ and reading this just send chills down my spine
- The first issue of Surveillance & Society of 2025 is out, including 6 original articles, a dialogue section on “Authoritarian Surveillance,” an editorial on Trump’s second presidency & 4 book reviews. #surveillance #authoritarianism #data #privacy ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
- The first issue of Surveillance & Society of 2025 is out, including 6 original articles, a dialogue section on “Authoritarian Surveillance,” an editorial on Trump’s second presidency & 4 book reviews. #surveillance #authoritarianism #data #privacy ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies NetworkLil write up I did about my surveillance & soc article for @survstudiesnet.bsky.social about price surveillance and inflation medium.com/surveillance...
- 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).
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies NetworkOur 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.
- A reminder that you have a week to go to submit abstracts for #SSN2025 in Ottawa, on #surveillance and #AI...
- 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/
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies Network📣 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...
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies Network2024 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!
- The first issue of 2024 was a #surveillance #art crossover special issue, Pleasures of Surveillance, edited by Stefy Mcknight and @juliachan.bsky.social, with contributions from artists and scholars... ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies NetworkJoin 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.
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies NetworkOur 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!
- 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...
- The first issue of 2024 was a #surveillance #art crossover special issue, Pleasures of Surveillance, edited by Stefy Mcknight and @juliachan.bsky.social, with contributions from artists and scholars... ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
- Issue #2 of 2024 was a big open issue, with articles on everything from #bossware, through #education #surveillance to vlogs. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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View full threadAll in all, a fantastic year! Thank-you to everyone who attended #SSN2024, and who chose to publish in Surveillance & Society, which remains 100% open access, free to submit, publish in, read etc. This means we rely on the work of our great editorial team: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
- Reminder! Less than a month to go until the abstract deadline for the SSN2025 Canada/USA Workshop on #Surveillance and #AI...
- 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/
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies NetworkNew 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
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies NetworkIn "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
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies NetworkThe new Dialogue on Synthetic Data/Media and Surveillance in Surveillance & Society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social includes 5 stellar pieces from @susser.bsky.social & Jeremy Seeman, Louis Ravn, Renée Ridgway & Nicolas Malevé, Tanja Wiehn, and Andrew Fitzgerald. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies NetworkSomehow (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!
- To that end: please submit your work for the Surveillance&Society (@survstudiesnet.bsky.social) special issue on Literature and Surveillance! I'm editing, submissions due Jan 1 for publication in September 2025, open-access, AI-free. 10/ ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
- Re-upping this call for abstracts - deadline: 10 January 2025.
- 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/
- Reposted by Surveillance Studies NetworkTo that end: please submit your work for the Surveillance&Society (@survstudiesnet.bsky.social) special issue on Literature and Surveillance! I'm editing, submissions due Jan 1 for publication in September 2025, open-access, AI-free. 10/ ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
