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Surveillance Studies Book Prize

The Surveillance Studies network is now accepting nominations for its second annual book prize, recognizing the world’s best English language scholarly book published on the topic of surveillance in the past year.  read more

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The Surveillance Studies Annual Book Prize 2011

The inaugural price has been awarded to Professor Torin Monahan’s book SURVEILLANCE IN THE TIME OF INSECURITY. read more

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Surveillance Studies Network Global Scholar Award 2011

Every two years, the Surveillance Studies Network will award up to 3 bursaries of £500 (500 GBP) each for attendees of the Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar (SSSS) organised by the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, from less developed or developing countries, who are in need of financial assistance. read more

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UK Information Commissioner reports to Parliament on the state of surveillance, based on an update report on developments since 2006 authored by SSN members.

His report includes the SSN-authored ‘An Update to a report on the surveillance society’, on which it is based. read more

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List of Surveillance Feature Films

Dietmar Kammerer compiled a list of feature films with a surveillance context, link or theme. Read more.

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Surveillance and Society in the News

The research by Mike McCahill and Rachel Finn on surveillance in schools, published in the lastested edition of Surveillance and Society, was reported in the the UKs Daily Telegraph newspaper on July 7th 2010.

The full article can be read here: The Social impact of Surveillance in Three UK Schools: Angels, Devils and Teen Mums

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Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) is a registered charitable company dedicated to the study of surveillance in all its forms, and the free distribution of scholarly information.

We are registered in the UK, but welcome members and supporters from all over the world. We own and run the journal Surveillance and Society and also act as a clearing house for social science and policy research and consultancy about surveillance.

Read more about our Charitable Objects, our Structure and Governance or details in our Internal Governing Document.

Read the SSN introduction to the Surveillance Society

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Acknowledgements

SSN would like to thank the following people and organizations:

The Milton Keynes branch of the National Council for Voluntary Organizations
The LawWorks for Community Groups scheme, especially:
- Aimi Friend at Simmonds and Simmonds Solicitors for the initial legal documentation
- Neil Brown at Vodafone Legal for drafting our Licensing agreements

Michael Wright Audio Visual Services for producing the DVD of our earlier media appearances
Keith Dixon, ex Open University Business School, who helped prepare the business plan
Russell-Cooke Solicitors Charity Team for their excellent newsletters and training network
Andrew Talbot who provided our membership software
Florian Kuhlmann who made the website work