The first issue of our eighth volume is out now, with four particularly provocative pieces from Irus Braverman on automated public toilets, Samuel Nunn on the biases of police wiretap interpretation, Anthony Bolton Newkirk on fusion centres, and Stuart Waiton on the (anti-)politics of CCTV. Plus opinion and reviews.

This international workshop brings together researchers, advocates, activists and artists working on the many aspects of cyber-surveillance, particularly as it pervades and mediates social life. This workshop will appeal to those interested in the surveillance aspects of topics such as the following, especially as they raise broader themes and issues that characterize the cyber-surveillance terrain more widely:

• social   networking (practices & platforms)
• search  engines
• behavioural  advertising/targeted marketing
• monitoring and analysis techniques (facial recognition, RFID, video analytics,     data mining)
• Internet  surveillance (deep packet inspection, backbone intercepts)
• resistance  (actors, practices, technologies)

A central concern is to better understand DMS practices, making them more publicly visible and democratically accountable. To do so, we must comprehend what constitutes DMS, delineating parameters for research and analysis. We must further explore the way citizens and consumers experience, engage with and respond to digitally mediated surveillance. Finally, we must develop alliances, responses and counterstrategies to deal with the ongoing creep of digitally mediated surveillance in everyday life.

The workshop adopts a novel structure, mainly comprising a series of themed panels organized to address compelling questions arising around digitally mediated surveillance that cut across the topics listed above. Some illustrative examples:

1. We regularly hear about ‘cyber-surveillance’, ‘cyber-security’, and ‘cyber-threats’. What constitutes cyber-surveillance, and what are the empirical and theoretical difficulties in establishing a practical understanding of cyber-surveillance? Is the enterprise of developing a definition useful, or condemned to analytic confusion?
2. What are the motives and strategies of key DMS actors (e.g. surveillance equipment/systems/ strategy/”solutions” providers; police/law enforcement/security agencies; data aggregation brokers; digital infrastructure providers); oversight/regulatory/data protection agencies; civil society organizations, and user/citizens?
3. What are the relationships among key DMS actors (e.g. between social networking site providers)? Between marketers (e.g. Facebook and DoubleClick)? Between digital infrastructure providers and law enforcement (e.g. lawful access)?
4. What business models are enterprises pursuing that promote DMS in a variety of areas, including social networking, location tracking, ID’d transactions etc. What can we expect of DMS in the coming years? What new risks and opportunities are likely?
5. What do people know about the DMS practices and risks they are exposed to in everyday life? What are people’s attitudes to these practices and risks?
6. What are the politics of DMS; who is active? What are their primary interests, what are the possible lines of contention and prospective alliances? What are the promising intervention points and alliances that can promote a more democratically accountable surveillance?
7. What is the relationship between DMS and privacy? Are privacy policies legitimating DMS? Is a re-evaluation of traditional information privacy principles required in light of new and emergent online practices, such as social networking and others?
8. Do deep packet inspection and other surveillance techniques and practices of internet service providers (ISP) threaten personal privacy?
9. How do new technical configurations promote surveillance and challenge privacy? For example, do cloud computing applications pose a greater threat to personal privacy than the client/server model? How do mobile devices and geo-location promote surveillance of individuals?
10. How do the multiple jurisdictions of internet data storage and exchange affect the application of national/international data protection laws?
11. What is the role of advocacy/activist movements in challenging cyber-surveillance?

In conjunction with the workshop there will be a combination of public events on the theme of

cyber-surveillance in everyday life:

• poster session, for presenting and discussing provocative ideas and works     in progress
• public  lecture or debate
• art exhibition/installation(s)

We invite 500 word abstracts of research papers, position statements, short presentations, works in progress, posters, demonstrations, installations. Each abstract should:

• address explicitly one or more “burning questions” related to digitally-mediated surveillance in everyday life, such as those mentioned above.
• indicate the form of intended contribution (i.e. research paper, position statement, shortpresentation, work in progress, poster, demonstration, installation)

The workshop will consist of about 40 participants, at least half of whom will be presenters listed on the published program. Funds will be available to support the participation of representatives of civil society organizations.

Accepted research paper authors will be invited to submit a full paper (~6000 words) for presentation and discussion in a multi-party panel session. All accepted submissions will be posted publicly. A selection of papers will be invited for revision and academic publication in a special issue of an open-access, refereed journal such as Surveillance and Society.

In order to facilitate a more holistic conversation, one that reaches beyond academia, we also invite critical position statements, short presentations, works-in-progress, interactive demonstrations, and artistic interpretations of the meaning and import of

cyber-surveillance in everyday life. These will be included in the panel sessions or grouped by theme in concurrent ‘birds-of-a-feather’ sessions designed to tease out, more interactively and informally, emergent questions, problems, ideas and future directions. This BoF track is meant to be flexible and contemporary, welcoming a variety of genres.

Instructions for making submissions will be available on the workshop website by Sept 1.

See also an accompanying Call for Annotated Bibliographies, aimed at providing background materials useful to workshop participants as well as more widely.

Timeline:

2010:

• Oct. 1: Abstracts (500 words) for research papers, position statements, and other ‘birds-of-a-feather’ submissions
• Nov. 15:    Notification to authors of accepted research papers, position statements, etc. Abstracts posted to web.

2011:

• Feb. 1:    Abstracts (500 words) for posters
• Mar. 1:    Notification to authors of accepted posters.
• Apr. 1:    Full research papers (5-6000 words) due, and posted to web.
• May 12-15    Workshop

Sponsored by: The New Transparency – Surveillance and Social Sorting.

International Program Committee: Jeffrey Chester (Center for Digital Democracy), Roger Clarke (Australian Privacy Foundation), Gus Hosein (Privacy International, London School of Economics), Helen Nissenbaum (New York University), Charles Raab (University of Edinburgh) and Priscilla Regan (George Mason University)

Organizing Committee: Colin Bennett, Andrew Clement, Kate Milberry & Chris Parsons.

University of Toronto & University of Victoria.

[English - Portuguese and Spanish follow]

Call for papers to researchers with specific interest in Latin America, and authors/participants of the events “Surveillance in Latin America” that took place in Curitiba (Brazil) and Toluca (Mexico), in 2009 and 2010, respectively:

We would like to invite you to attend the call for papers for a special issue of the journal Surveillance & Society (http://www.surveillance-and-society.org) that will have the same theme as the events in Curitiba (http://www2.pucpr.br/ssscla) and Toluca (http://bit.ly/c3Knxy), that is, “SURVEILLANCE IN LATIN AMERICA”.

This call will be open to everyone interested in surveillance in Latin America. However, papers submitted and presented in both events can be integrally re-submitted to S&S in bilingual versions (Portuguese+English OR Spanish+English). We suggest that they be revised and updated.

IMPORTANT:
1) This is going to be a bilingual issue. Therefore, all papers (apart from the ones originally submitted to the event in English) MUST have two IDENTICAL versions: one in English and another in its original language (Portuguese or Spanish). After the refereeing process, changes and revisions eventually suggested by referees must be applied in both versions. Authors must follow the journal’s author guidelines, available at: http://bit.ly/c81UpY

2) Submission MUST be made through the online submission process (please do not send it by email). Find more information at: http://bit.ly/bEkIq5

3) As it is a special issue, authors MUST write ‘Latin America’ in the ‘Comments for the Editor’ section on the first step of the 5-step submission process.

Submissions will undergo double blind reviews, according to the editorial rules of S&S.

Important dates:
January 20th, 2011 – submission deadline
April 20th, 2011 – review deadline
May 30th, 2011  – resubmission deadline
June/July, 2011 – Publication

We look forward to receive as many contributions as possible. This is a great opportunity to have your studies known by an international audience in a very reputable journal.

Regards,
Rodrigo Firmino, Nelson Arteaga Botello, Fernanda Bruno, Marta Kanashiro, Vanessa Lara.

[português]

Chamada de trabalhos à pesquisadores com foco na América Latina, e autores/participantes dos eventos “Vigilância na América Latina” realizados em Curitiba (Brasil) e Toluca (México), em 2009 e 2010 respectivamente:

Gostaríamos de convidá-los a participar da chamada de trabalhos para uma edição especial do periódico Surveillance & Society (http://www.surveillance-and-society.org) que terá como temática principal os eventos realizados em Curitiba (http://www2.pucpr.br/ssscla) e Toluca (http://bit.ly/c3Knxy), isto é, “SURVEILLANCE IN LATIN AMERICA”.

Esta chamada será aberta a todos os pesquisadores interessados no tema da vigilância na América Latina, independente da participação nos eventos. Entretanto, os trabalhos submetidos e apresentados nos eventos podem ser re-submetidos na íntegra para a revista S&S em versões bilíngüe (português+inglês OU espanhol+inglês). Sugerimos ainda que sejam revistos e atualizados.

IMPORTANTE:
1) Será uma edição bilíngüe. Assim, todos os trabalhos (com exceção daqueles originalmente submetidos ao evento em inglês) DEVEM ter duas versões IDÊNTICAS: uma em inglês e outra na língua original (português ou espanhol). Após os pareceres e revisões, alterações eventualmente propostas pelos pareceristas devem ser realizadas em ambas as versões. Todos os trabalhos devem seguir as regras de formatação e redação do periódico, disponíveis em: http://bit.ly/c81UpY

2) Os trabalhos DEVEM ser submetidos através do sistema online de submissões do próprio periódico (favor não enviar por email). Mais informações sobre este processo podem ser encontradas em: http://bit.ly/bEkIq5

3) Como será uma edição especial, os autores DEVEM escrever “Latin America” no espaço reservado como “Comments for the Editor” no primeiro de cinco passos no processo de submissão online.
As submissões receberão duplos pareceres anônimos conforme as regras editoriais do S&S.

Datas importantes:
20/01/2011 – submissão do artigo completo
20/04/2011 – resposta com pareceres
30/05/2011  – limite para resubmissão
Junho/Julho 2011 – publicação

Esperamos poder contar com a participação do maior número possível de trabalhos. Esta é uma grande oportunidade de divulgação de suas pesquisas a um público internacional em um periódico de muito respeito.

Abraços,
Rodrigo Firmino, Nelson Arteaga Botello, Fernanda Bruno, Marta Kanashiro, Vanessa Lara.

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Convocatória para trabajos a los investigadores con un enfoque en América Latina, y autores/participantes de los eventos “Vigilancia en América Latina”, que tuvieron lugar en Curitiba (Brasil) y Toluca (México), en 2009 y 2010, respectivamente:

Queremos invitarlos a participar en la convocatoria de trabajos para una edición especial de la revista Surveillance & Society (http://www.surveillance-and-society.org) que tendrá el mismo tema que los eventos en Curitiba (http://www2.pucpr.br/ssscla) y Toluca (http://bit.ly/c3Knxy), esto es, “VIGILANCIA EN LATINOAMÉRICA”.

Esta convocatoria estará abierta a toda persona interesada en la vigilancia en Latinoamérica. Sin embargo, los trabajos registrados y presentados en ambos eventos pueden ser entregados también para la S&S en versiones bilingües (Español + Inglés ó Portugués + Inglés). Sugerimos que sean versiones revisadas y actualizadas.

IMPORTANTE:
1) Esta será una edición bilingüe.  Por lo tanto, todos los textos (con excepción de aquellos originalmente enviados a los eventos en inglés) DEBERÁN tener dos versiones IDÉNTICAS: una en inglés y otra en  su idioma original (Portugués ó Español). Después del proceso de dictaminación, los cambios y revisiones que eventualmente sean sugeridos por los dictaminadores, deberán realizarse a las dos versiones. Los autores deben seguir los criterios editoriales de la revista, disponibles en: http://bit.ly/c81UpY

2) Los trabajos DEBERÁN ser entregados a través del sistema en línea de entrega de la propia revista (favor de no enviar por correo electrónico). Más información en: http://bit.ly/bEkIq5

3) Al ser una edición especial, los autores deberán escribir “Latin America” en el espacio denominado “Comments for the Editor”, en el primero de los cinco pasos del proceso de entrega.

Los trabajos entregados serán evaluados bajo el criterio pares ciegos, de acuerdo con las normas editoriales de la S&S.

Fechas importantes:
Enero 20, 2011- Fecha límite para entrega de trabajos
Abril 20, 2011- Fecha límite para dictaminar trabajos
Mayo 30, 2011- Fecha límite para reenvío de trabajos
Junio/julio, 2011- Publicación

Esperamos contar con la mayor cantidad posible de contribuciones. Esta es una gran oportunidad para divulgar sus trabajos de investigación entre un público internacional en una revista de prestigio.

Saludos,
Rodrigo Firmino, Nelson Arteaga Botello, Fernanda Bruno, Marta Kanashiro, Vanessa Lara.

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Editor-in-Chief: Rocci Luppicini, University of Otttawa, Canada

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

Submisson deadline: September 15, 2010

Recommended topics:

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Technoethics and Cognition (artificial morality, ethical agents, technoethical systems, technoethical mind, techno-addiction and ethical intervention, etc.)
• Biotech Ethics (cloning ethics, e-health ethics, telemedicine ethics, medical, research ethics, genetic ethics, neuroethics, sport and nutrition technoethics, etc.)
• Technoethics and Society (digital property ethics, technoethics and social theory, technoethics and law, technoethics and science, technoethics and art, global technoethics, etc.)
• Computer and Engineering Ethics (professional codes of ethics, environmental technoethics, military technoethics, nanoethics, nuclear ethics, etc.)
• Information and Communication Technoethics (cyberethics, cyber pornography, cybercrime, cyber-stalking, internet ethics, media ethics, netiquette, etc.)
• Organizational Technoethics (e-business ethics, outsourcing ethics, virtual organization ethics, global ethics, technoethics and knowledge management, technoethics and work, etc.)
• Educational Technothics (cyber-bullying, cyber democracy, digital divide, e-learning ethics, emancipatory educational technology, professional technoethics, technoethical assessment and evaluation, etc.).

Misson of IJT:

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT). The mission of the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) is to evolve technological relationships of humans with a focus on ethical implications for human life, social norms and values, education, work, politics, law, and ecological impact. This journal provides cutting-edge analysis of technological innovations, research,developments policies, theories, and methodologies related to ethical aspects of technology in society.IJT publishes empirical research, theoretical studies, innovative methodologies, practical applications, case studies, and book reviews. IJT encourages submissions from philosophers, researchers, social theorists, ethicists, historians, practitioners, and technologists from all areas of human activity affected by advancing technology.

Submitting to the International Journal of Technoethics:

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS.  PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers.

Publisher:

The International Journal of Technoethics is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

Dr. Rocci Luppicini, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Technoethics
E-mail: mailto:rluppici@uottawa.ca

It contains films from 1956’s “1984″ to the classic “Dr Mabuse” (1960), from the absurd “Brazil”(1985) to the mainstream “Sneakers” (1992), from De Palma’s “Blowout” (1981) to Antonioni’s “Blow-up” (1966) – films from early as 1927  – “Metropolis” – to the latest Hollywood hits.

For all researchers interested in the subject matter, this resource will hopefully be of much help. For all others an enjoyable reading.

Thanks to Dietmar for this list and the work that went into it.

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

featuring 9 great articles…

• Gary Marx and Valerie Steeves – ‘From the Beginning: Children as Subjects and Agents of Surveillance’
• Angie C Henderson, Sandra M Harmon and Jeffrey Houser – ‘A New State of Surveillance? An Application of Michel Foucault to Modern Motherhood’
• Anna Sparrman and Anne-Li Lindgren – ‘Visual documentation as a normalizing practice: a new discourse of visibility in preschool’
• Micheal Gallagher – ‘Are schools panoptic?’
• Mike McCahill and Rachel Finn – ‘The Social impact of Surveillance in Three UK Schools: Angels, Devils and Teen Mums’
• Ian McIntosh, Samantha Punch, Nika Dorrer and Ruth Emond – ‘”You don’t have to be watched to make your toast”: Surveillance and Food Practices within Residential Care’
• Lynne Wrennall – ‘Surveillance and Child Protection: De-mystifying the Trojan Horse’
• Craig Osmond – ‘Anti-social behaviour and its surveillant inter-assemblage’
• Tonya Rooney     - ‘Trusting Children: How do surveillance technologies alter a child’s experience of trust, risk and responsibility?’

and more…

Vol 7, No 2 (2010) Surveillance, Performance and New Media Art
edited by John McGrath and Bob Sweeny

The relationship between the visual arts and surveillance has been explored through large scale exhibitions (CTRL:Space, ZKM), and texts such as Loving Big Brother (McGrath, 2004) have introduced questions of performance and performativity into the surveillance debate. However, as the technological possibilities available to artists grow, and the social impact of surveillance is increasingly recognized, there is a need for a thorough examination of the uses of surveillance in the visual arts, particularly in the genres of new media and performance art, where issues regarding technological engagement and embodiment come to the fore. This special issue of Surveillance & Society presents papers and works that examine the complexities of surveillance in new media and performance art. Several of the pieces are accompanied by further photogrpahic and video material.

Contents

• Editorial – John McGrath / Robert Sweeny
• Robert Ladislas Derr – Artist, Robert Ladislas Derr uses die rolls and cameras to map his walk through cities worldwide
• Robert Spahr – Recent Thoughts on Panoptic Cruft (fragments) -
• Paola Barreto Leblanc – From Closed-Circuit Television to the Open Network of Live Cinema -
• Jordan Crandall – HOMEFRONT
• Renata Moreira Marquez / Wellington Cançado Coelho – Myopia Index / Global Safari
• Raul Gschrey – Contemporary Closed Circuits – Subversive Dialogues. Artistic Strategies against Surveillance
• A Trialogue on Interventions in Surveillance Space: Seda Gürses in conversation with Michelle Teran and Manu Luksch
• Andrea Mubi Brighenti – Artveillance: At the Crossroad of Art and Surveillance

University of Nottingham, UK
28th-29th April 2011

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
China Miéville and Dr. Alberto Toscano

This two day international conference for postgraduate and early career researchers explores interdisciplinary conceptions and representations of radical, counter-hegemonic space.
As concerns grow over such issues as spatial privatisation, commodification and homogenisation, surveillance, extra-legal spaces, social and political ‘non-spaces’, and the loss of common or public spaces, so too a plethora of interventions—across genre and disciplinary boundaries—have been launched in opposition to these trends. Examples are diverse, and can be found, for example, in literary studies of estranging narratives in contemporary fiction; spatial representations in film, TV and new media; the creation of
critical spaces of alterity in political activism (such as semi-autonomous zones); psychogeographical spatial strategies, and philosophical and theoretical conceptions of counter-hegemonic space.

We invite proposals for papers of 20 minutes from candidates across the arts and humanities, welcoming individual papers as well as group panels that respond to these and other conceptions of counter-hegemonic “Spaces of Alterity”. Possible research questions include, but are not limited to:

What estranging utopian, dystopian, post-apocalyptic and science fiction spaces of alterity are being utilised in contemporary aesthetic and cultural productions, e.g. film, literature, TV, art, computer games?

How do these narratives travel across media and what changes occur when they are adapted, reworked and transformed? What research questions are raised by such collaborations, transmissions and intermedial dialogues

How can we approach traditionally-understood print and audio-visual texts in relation to virtual spaces of alterity, such as fan-based communities, social networking sites and other sites developed through user-generated content (UGC)?

What are the relationships between textual spaces of alterity and non-textual forums, communities and dialogues?

What physical spaces of alterity are being constructed in contemporary urban environments?

How are such spaces critical, oppositional or subversive and how do they draw on the contributions of local communities and organisations?  How do spaces of alterity which are informed by traditionally-understood “texts” function on the Internet and how can they inform our understanding of filmic, visual and literary textual methodologies and
approaches?

What forms can counter-hegemonic, avant-garde, or ‘subtractive’ spaces – which can be spatial, but also temporal or conceptual – take?

What political, artistic, or scientific practices can such spaces foster? How does distance from institutions help form alternative political, literary and artistic practices?

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent by email as a Word attachment to spacesofalterity@gmail.com by Wednesday 3rd November 2010 and should include name, affiliation, e-mail address, title of paper and 4 keywords.

Conference website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cultural-studies/research/conferences.aspx

Speakers:

China Miéville is a distinguished “Weird Fiction” novelist, activist, and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Warwick. His publications include King Rat (1998), Perido Street Staion (2000), and Iron Council (2004). In 2010 he won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for an unprecedented second time with his latest novel, The City and the City
(2009).

Alberto Toscano is senior lecturer in Philosophy at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published extensively on social and political subjectivity, biopolitics, and the philosophy of Alain Badiou.