📢 Call for Papers | Surveillance & Society Surveillance & Society is inviting expressions of interest for an upcoming Dialogue section on “People Watching People, Revisited.” +

Surveillance & Society and @survstudiesnet.bsky.social have just announced the Early Career Researcher prize winners for 2025. Congrats to the winners, and check out their amazing articles too! (Linked here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...)

For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.

Check out a terrific new special issue of Surveillance & Society on “Resisting Surveillance Through Data Visibility and Invisibility.” Always #OpenAccess. #Ring #Surveillance #FacialRecognition #LGBTQ+ #ForensicArchitecture ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

"We found that at least 150 institutions of higher ed... are using Flock’s surveillance network.. many campus police departments have facilitated immigration related investigations, even when they are located in sanctuary states and are legally prohibited from doing so" by @torinmonahan.bsky.social

Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus

Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...

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Congratulations to the winners of the Surveillance Studies Network's 2025 Early Career Researcher Awards for publications in Surveillance & Society! 🎉 To explore the award-winning papers, follow this thread 👇 #SurveillanceStudies #SurveillanceAndSociety #EarlyCareerResearcher

📢 Call for Papers | Special Issue — Surveillance & Society: “Everyday Surveillance and Intimate Partner Violence” Edited by Karen Louise Grova Søilen, Kristin Veel & Kassandra Wellendorf.

📚 ANNUAL SURVEILLANCE STUDIES BOOK AWARD (2026) The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) is now accepting nominations (including self-nominations) for the best monograph on surveillance published in 2025. 🔗 ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... Thread 🧵

Join us for "Surveying the (Criminal) Future: A Virtual Roundtable on Minority Report", a virtual event hosted by the SSN Arts Committee. 📅 April 30 ⏰ 12:00 - 1:00 PM CST 💻 Online 🔗 Register here: texastech.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📢 Our latest blog post is out: Sarah Young, Jason Pridmore, and Catherine Brooks reflect on their article titled “A Pivot to Quantum: Shifting the Surveillant Assemblage” which appeared in the 23(4) issue of Surveillance & Society. medium.com/surveillance...

A Pivot to Quantum: Shifting the Surveillant Assemblage

In this post, Sarah Young, Jason Pridmore, and Catherine Brooks reflect on their article titled “A Pivot to Quantum: Shifting the…

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📢 Our latest blog post is out: Deena Varner reviews Dangerous Animals (2025), Directed by Sean Byrne. Read it (& all our others) here: medium.com/surveillance...

📢 Our latest blog post is out: Karissa Ketter and Darren Byler reflections on their Surveillance & Society 23(4) article “‘Subordinated Inclusion’: Population Sorting Technologies as Digital Confinement in the United States, China, and Israel”. Read it (& all our others) here: shre.ink/mediumSSN

“Subordinated Inclusion”: Population Sorting Technologies as Digital Confinement in the United…

In this post, Karissa Ketter and Dr. Darren Byler reflect on their article titled “‘Subordinated Inclusion”: Population Sorting…

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Surveillance & Society has published a great new issue—w/ articles on data leaks, ceasefire monitoring, campus #protests, & much more! The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

🎉 We are excited to announce the 2024 winners of our #Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher prize for publications in our journal, Surveillance & Society 🎉 Check out their fantastic papers here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... Congratulations to the winners!!

The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for its 2026 Arts Prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations is August 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award. The deadline for receipt of books from the publisher is October 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

📢 Our latest blog post is live! 'Anyone Who’s Watching Can See That You’re Watching, Too' by @corinnejones.bsky.social - about the relationship b/w #consumption, #visibility labours, & social media’s #surveillance economy. Find this & our other great contributions here: medium.com/surveillance...

Anyone Who’s Watching Can See That You’re Watching, Too

In this post, Corinne Jones reflects on her article ‘“Anyone Who’s Watching Can See That You’re Watching, Too”: A Case Study of Prosumption…

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PUBLISHED: New open issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: tinyurl.com/9c473scz

📢 Our latest blog post is live: 'Contesting Surveillance: What Tunisian Imams Taught Me' by @fabriziol.bsky.social - a discussion of #surveillance, #security, violent extremism, and radicalisation. Find this great contribution (and check out all of our others!) here: medium.com/surveillance...

Contesting Surveillance: What Tunisian Imams Taught Me

In this post, Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu reflects on his article ‘Vernacular Security and Religion in Tunisia: The Role of Local Imams in the…

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📢 Our latest blog post is out: 'Styling the #Surveillance Self in #Fashion Media' by Louisa Rogers - a fascinating exploration of security and surveillance in fashion photography. Read it (& all our others) here: medium.com/surveillance...

Styling the Surveillance Self in Fashion Media

In this post, Louisa Rogers reflects on her article ‘Styling the Surveillance Self in Fashion Media: Strategies of Sexualization and…

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We are excited to announce the 11th Biennial #Surveillance Studies Network Conference happening 9th-12th June 2026, in Lille, France. It includes a #PhD Colloquium. #SSN2026 is hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social ETHICS & ISTC. Look out for more info soon... And get those abstracts ready!

📢 Our latest blog post is out: 'Scatological Humour and the Absent #Anthropology of #Privacy' by Vita Peacock - examining how scatological references are used satirically to make statements about contemporary #digital #surveillance. Read it (& all our others) here: medium.com/surveillance...

Scatological Humour and the Absent Anthropology of Privacy

In this post, Vita Peacock reflects on her article ‘Scatological Humour and the Absent Anthropology of Privacy’, which appeared in the…

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We're pleased to share our latest blog post: 'When Watching Each Other Becomes a Matter of Survival' by Camilo Tamayo Gomez - analysing mutual #surveillance, #power & #control during long-term kidnappings. You can read it (and check out all of our others) here: medium.com/surveillance...

When Watching Each Other Becomes a Matter of Survival: Surveillance and Coexistence in Jungle…

In this post, Camilo Tamayo Gomez reflects on his article ‘Analysing Mutual Surveillance Practices During Long-Term Kidnapping Situations…

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📢 Excited to share our latest blog post: 'Squeeveillance' by Garfield Benjamin - a discussion on domestic #surveillance, #Ring doorbell media, and the power of #cuteness in the surveillant assemblage You can read it here (make sure to check out the other posts too!): medium.com/surveillance...

Squeeveillance

In this post, Garfield Benjamin reflects on their article ‘Squeeveillance: Performing Cuteness to Normalise Surveillance Power’, which…

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Huge thanks to @marielgm.bsky.social for writing a review of The Walls Have Eyes for Surveillance & Society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social (open access too!)

The editorial „sketches some of the key dangers presented by the second Trump presidency“ and reading this just send chills down my spine

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The first issue of Surveillance & Society of 2025 is out, including 6 original articles, a dialogue section on “Authoritarian Surveillance,” an editorial on Trump’s second presidency & 4 book reviews. #surveillance #authoritarianism #data #privacy ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

The first issue of Surveillance & Society of 2025 is out, including 6 original articles, a dialogue section on “Authoritarian Surveillance,” an editorial on Trump’s second presidency & 4 book reviews. #surveillance #authoritarianism #data #privacy ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Lil write up I did about my surveillance & soc article for @survstudiesnet.bsky.social about price surveillance and inflation medium.com/surveillance...

Inflation’s spies

In this post, Aaron Shapiro reflects on his article ‘Price Monitoring, or Where Surveillance Studies Meets the Sociology of Price…

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We're delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 Surveillance Book Prize is: Profiles and Plotlines, by Katherine D. Johnston (University of Iowa Press).

Our January newsletter is out! Read about Syrian surveillance revelation after Assad's fall, India’s draft data protection rules, Latin America’s 2024 overview of AI Integration, @oiioxford.bsky.social's Global Southing Internet workshop & New OA Book on Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries.

Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Jan 2024

We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.

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