Dr. David Lyon talked about his 2018 book, The Culture of Surveillance, on the BBC Radio 4 show 'Thinking Allowed' with Sociologist Laurie Taylor. The other guest, Kristie Ball from St Andrew's University Scotland, was a member of the Surveillance Studies Centre research team. The show can be heard
Toronto Star: Civil liberties association threatens legal action to block Sidewalk Labs smart city project.
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Dr. Norma Möllers gave a talk on March 15 at the Digital Sociology mini-conference which takes place as part of the . The paper's title is "The internet, digital capitalism, and the state: How the material stuff of information became a problem for state power." It also presents findings from her current SSHRC project.
PhD Candidate, Thomas MacDonald chatted about his research on digital media piracy in the CFRC Radio Kingston studio with Think: Digital Futures, a program on 107.3 a campus community radio station in Sydney, Australia! The talk is available .
Each year, the of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ recognizes outstanding teaching assistants and our very own MA Candidate, Spencer Huesken was honored this year. Congratulations, Spencer!
Thank you to everyone who participated and organized the Department of Sociology annual graduate student conference, Interconnections: Navigating People, Culture and Society on April 9, 2019.
Congratulations to Dr. David Murakami Wood on his success in obtaining a short-term fellowship with the Japan Foundation: The Olympics in the Age of Impossibility - Security and Tokyo 2020.
Dr. Norma Möllers was successful in her SSHRC Insight Grant application: Infrastructuring the State: Materiality, Morality, Sovereignty. The research will investigate how and with what consequences the State mobilizes science and technology to produce and maintain state power vis-a-vis problems caused by Big Tech. Congratulations!
In April 2019, at the Screening Room, the Surveillance Studies Centre launched a series of short films on surveillance.
