News Archive: 2011

Call for Papers: "Surveillant Geographies"; deadline 20 January 2012

Royal Geographical Society-Insitute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference, Edinburgh UK, 3-5th July 2012. Sponsored by the Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society

"Surveillant Geographies" Convened by David Murakami Wood (Queen's University, Ontario) and Steve Graham (Newcastle University) In this era of risk and security, surveillance is intensifying, expanding, rescaling and reterratorializing. New organisational practices, new technologies and...

New book: Eyes Everywhere: The Global Growth of Camera Surveillance

co-edited by Aaron Doyle (Carleton), Randy Lippert (Windsor) and David Lyon (Queen's).

Eyes Everywhere provides the first international perspective on the development of camera surveillance. It scrutinises the quiet but massive expansion of camera surveillance around the world in recent years, focusing especially on Canada, the UK and the USA but also including less-debated but important contexts...

Post-doc/Senior Researcher, Infonomics and New Media Research Centre at Zuyd University

The Infonomics and New Media Research Centre at Zuyd University has a vacancy for a Postdoc / senior researcher (2 yrs, full time). Closing Date for applications: 15 January 2012

The Infonomics and New Media Research Centre at Zuyd University has a vacancy for a Postdoc/senior researcher (2 yrs, full time) (vacancy nr INM-SR-0804) Closing Date for applications: 15...

Call for PhD Applications at the University of Victoria

One PhD stipend, funded through grants received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), and beginning in September 2012, is available in the Department of Political Science, University of Victoria

One PhD stipend, funded through grants received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), and beginning in September 2012, is available...

Post-doctoral fellowship in surveillance studies

The New Transparency research project seeks to fill one post-doctoral fellow position, starting summer 2012 based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

Post-doctoral fellowship in surveillance studies

The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting research project seeks to fill one post-doctoral fellow position, starting summer 2012 based in the Department of Sociology...

CFP: Democracy and Surv. Technologies, ISA Buenos Aires

ISA Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina August 1-4 2012. As usual, there will be a session on surveillance within the Research Committee 23 on the Sociology of Science and Technology. Abstract deadline is 15 December 2011.

The International Sociological Association Forum wil be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina August 1-4 2012. As usual, there will be a session on...

(Un)Lawful Access

(Un)Lawful Access: Experts Line Up Against Online Spying

See the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyHnOCDewuQ

"In the May 2011 federal election, the Conservative Party promised to pass 'cyber-surveillance' legislation within 100 days of coming to office.

These measures will greatly expand the on-line surveillance of all Canadians.

'Lawful Access' legislation raises serious risks to Canadian privacy,...

Call for Papers

Canadian Review of Sociology

Special Issue: Surveillance and Security

Guest Editors: David Lyon, David Murakami Wood (Queen's University)

The Canadian Review of Sociology invites papers for a special issue on Surveillance and Security to be published in 2012. As topics of social and sociological concern, both surveillance and security have become increasingly important in the early twenty-first...

Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize - Winner Announced

Congratulations to Torin Monahan, whose book Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity is the winner of this year’s inaugural SSN Book Prize!

New issue of Surveillance & Society, Vol. 8 Issue 4

Open Issue , featuring articles, opinion pieces, book reviews, and a special debate section on privacy.

New Book - Security Games

Congratulations to Colin Bennett and Kevin Haggerty on their new book Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events , published by Taylor & Francis .

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Surveillance and Security

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Surveillance and Security: “Exploring U.S. Department of Homeland Security Fusion Centers.”

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Vanderbilt University is seeking a postdoctoral-level scholar for a research project on the social, legal, and technical dimensions of DHS “fusion centers.” This project will document and evaluate the information-sharing practices of fusion centers, with a focus on variations...

New issue of Surveillance & Society out now:

Marketing, Consumption and Surveillance , edited by Jason Pridmore and Detlev Zwick

Surveillance & Society : the international journal of surveillance studies

Out now: Issue 8(3) : Marketing, Consumption and Surveillance edited by Jason Pridmore and Detlev Zwick

Featuring six new articles:

Mark B Andrejevic - Surveillance and Alienation in the Online Economy Christian Fuchs...