University of Westminster, Regent Street, Room UG05
Today, we live out a large proportion of our lives online. Much of this activity is conducted on mobile digital devices, which are seamlessly integrated into our personal and professional lives. This has allowed for the development of surveillance methods that enable governments and private actors – to peer into the most intimate aspects of peoples’ existences. The digitalisation of everyday life has also made possible the objectifying, dehumanising and decontextualizing of human engagement and identity into measurable and quantifiable data units.
The insidious and unequal effects of these digital technologies across different populations has reconfigured ideas of trust, harm and consent in liberal democracies. This symposium is designed to bring together researchers working on issues around technology, surveillance and control, from across disciplines to explore questions around the transformation of trust, harm and consent in democratic states. The aim is to think transversally about questions of technology and digital surveillance, outside of the confines of disciplinary camps or narrow research ‘objects’ to draw broader conclusions and open up new lines of enquiry for future research collaborations.
Call for papers
We invite expressions of interest, comprised of name, institution/department and a short (250 word) abstract from prospective participants.
Indicative themes include, but are not limited to:
- AI, automation and labour
- Algorithmic injustice
- Cybercrime
- Data protection and privacy
- Data and violence
- Digital criminal justice
- Discrimination and inequalities in the digital age
- Disinformation and fake news
- Digital surveillance
- Information exchange and processing
- Internet manipulation
- Platform capitalism
- Pre-emption, suspicion and policing the future
- Social media
- Sexuality and consent online
- Technologies of border control
Please send the expression of interest to Lea Sitkin ([email protected]) and Emma McCluskey ([email protected]) by Friday 8 April 2022.
