Parallel session 8
Examining private uses of surveillance technology
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 8 – Electronic Surveillance Date and time: 25th April 2014. (17:00‐18:30) Author: Liisa A. Mäkinen Examining private uses of surveillance technology This paper examines how people use surveillance technology, especially surveillance cameras for their own purposes. In Finland a number of people have installed cameras and other [...]
Olympic “McVeillance”: The ‘McDonaldised Surveillance’ in the post‐ 9/11 Summer Olympics (Athens, Beijing and London) and its ‘glocal’ implications
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 8 – Mega‐events Date and time: 25th April 2014. (17:00‐18:30) Autors: Minas Samatas Olympic “McVeillance”: The ‘McDonaldised Surveillance’ in the post‐ 9/11 Summer Olympics (Athens, Beijing and London) and its ‘glocal’ implications The post-9/11 Olympic Games under the impact of terrorist threats and the interests of the [...]
Lateral Surveillance in Singapore
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 8 – Schools and youth Date and time: 25th April 2014. (17:00‐18:30) Authors: Hee Jhee Jiow and Sofia Morales Lateral Surveillance in Singapore With the high Internet penetration rate, and the dense saturation of audio-visual-capturing mobile smartphones among its citizens, Singapore provides a ripe technological infrastructure for [...]
Living in the Mirror: Understanding Young Women’s Experiences with Online Social Networking
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 8 – Schools and youth Date and time: 25th April 2014. (17:00‐18:30) Authors: Valerie Steeves and Jane Bailey Living in the Mirror: Understanding Young Women’s Experiences with Online Social Networking Our paper presents the findings of a qualitative study that explored girls’ lived experiences of watching and [...]
Negotiating electronic surveillance
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 8 – Electronic Surveillance Date and time: 25th April 2014. (17:00‐18:30) Authors: Johann Chaulet and Camille Allaria Negotiating electronic surveillance Our paper is based on two field studies. The first one deals with the surveillance of workers in call centers; through ethnographic observations, we have been analyzing [...]
Post‐Communism: What does it mean in a surveillance studies perspective?
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 8 – Theory V Date and time: 25th April 2014. (17:00‐18:30) Authors: Ola Svenonius, Fredrika Björklund and Pawel Waszkiewicz Post‐Communism: What does it mean in a surveillance studies perspective? It is well known that surveillance was a key aspect of daily life in the communist regimes in [...]
Surveillance‐driven security during the spectacle: Contested control in the Olympic city
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 8 – Mega‐events Date and time: 25th April 2014. (17:00‐18:30) Author: Pete Fussey Surveillance‐driven security during the spectacle: Contested control in the Olympic city During the summer of 2012 London hosted one of the world’s largest sporting events that both served to both catalyze numerous existing processes [...]
The ‘named person’: surveillance and the wellbeing of children and young people in Scotland
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 8 – Schools and youth Date and time: 25th April 2014. (17:00‐18:30) Author: Eric Stoddart The ‘named person’: surveillance and the wellbeing of children and young people in Scotland The Scottish Government (Scottish Nationalist Party) has placed a Bill before the Holyrood Parliament that seeks to legislate [...]
The Art of Governing in an Age of Revelation: On the Biopolitics of Biovisuality
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 8 – Theory V Date and time: 25th April 2014. (17:00‐18:30) Authors: Gavin John Douglas Smith The Art of Governing in an Age of Revelation: On the Biopolitics of Biovisuality This paper examines the transforming value, resolution and vitalism of the social body as it is increasingly [...]
The Surveillant Eye in the Sky: A Preliminary Investigation and Mapping of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as a New Technology of Surveillance (in Canada)
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 8 – Electronic Surveillance Date and time: 25th April 2014. (17:00‐18:30) Author: Ciara Bracken‐Roche The Surveillant Eye in the Sky: A Preliminary Investigation and Mapping of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as a New Technology of Surveillance (in Canada) The applications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expanding [...]
Reclaiming the Look‐ Red Road as Feminist Surveillance
Session: PARALLEL SESSION 8 – Theory V Date and time: 25th April 2014. (17:00‐18:30) Author: Jonathan Naveh Reclaiming the Look‐ Red Road as Feminist Surveillance Traditionally in the cinema surveillance is used as a means to confront the anxiety of being watched (or listened to) in social and to a [...]
