270
Surveillance, Power and Justice

Wednesday, 18 July 2018: 17:30-19:20
Location: 713A (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture (host committee)

Language: English

Surveillance of many kinds has rapidly become a central issue within digital modernity, on a global plane. What was once thought of as a discrete problem of national security, policing, or workplace monitoring is now viewed as a crucial challenge for all citizens everywhere. The gathering and analysis of personal data is simultaneously a social, economic, political, technical and cultural phenomenon that profoundly affects life-chances and choices in all areas of life, a trend now accented by the growing use of “big data” practices in many countries. Surveillance is a crucible and conduit of power that raises urgent questions of power and rights and demands careful and communal research. This session explores some of the most important aspects of surveillance today, with the accent on data analytics, showing how they raise vital questions for power and justice, nationally and internationally.
Session Organizer:
David LYON, Queen's University, Canada
Oral Presentations
270.1
Surveillance, Algorithms, and Democracy
Natalie BYFIELD, St. John's University, USA
270.2
Surveillance, Big Data, Micro-Targeting and the Profiling of Western Electorates
COLIN BENNETT, UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, Canada; Jeffrey HUGHES, School of Management, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
270.3
Digital Surveillance with Knowledge Production: How the Chinese Government Manages Online Public Opinion in the Era of Big Data
Rui HOU, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, Canada
270.4
Institutional Uses of Dublin Regulation III and the Eurodac Database By France and Switzerland to Identify Foreigners to be Deported
Ibrahim SOYSÜREN, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Mihaela NEDELCU, University of Neuchâtel, Institut of Sociology, Switzerland
270.5
Identification As Power, Body As Risk but Resource: The Colonial ID Systems Applied to the Neoliberal World
Midori OGASAWARA, Queen's University, Canada
270.6
Beyond Contexts of Surveillance: Surveillance in the Everyday
Rachel DUBROFSKY, University of South Florida, USA
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