Royal Society of Canada recognizes five Queen’s University faculty members in the New Scholars, Artists and Scientists program.
Surveillance Studies Centre member David Murakami Wood is one of five Queen’s University faculty members that have been named to the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists program. The new program recognizes an emerging generation of... Read more about @title...
Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, Former Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Canada
Educated at Oxford and Newcastle, UK, David Murakami Wood is the Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, and former Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies (2009–19). He is an interdisciplinary specialist in surveillance, security and technology in cities from a global perspective, working mainly in Canada, Japan, the UK and Brazil. He is a leading organizer in the field of Surveillance Studies as co-founder and now co-editor-in-chief of the international, open access, peer-reviewed journal, Surveillance & Society, co-founder of the Surveillance Studies Network, co-editor of Surveillance Studies: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2018), Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence (UBC Press, 2021), and the forthcoming International Handbook of Surveillance Studies (Edward Elgar).
Location: Mac Corry Hall, Room D411 12:30- 2:00 pm
Smart City, Surveillance City: human flourishing in a data-driven urban world
David Murakami Wood Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies
‘Smart cities’ are characterized by pervasive and distributed sensor networks generating big data for forms of centralized urban management, drawing together such previously unconnected infrastructural systems as video surveillance, meteorological stations, traffic... Read more about @title...
Workshop dates: 11-13 June 2015, Queen’s University (Donald Gordon Centre), Kingston, ON, Canada
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2015
This workshop strives to bring intersectionality to the forefront of surveillance studies. As surveillance studies becomes increasingly multidisciplinary and post-structural, a thought-provoking frontier for surveillance scholars is to critically focus on the ways in which identity-based discrimination can impact surveillance processes and lived... Read more about @title...
Charles Stankievech (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto) and David Murakami Wood (Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies, Queen's University)
Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 12:30-2:00pm Agnes Etherington Art Centre Atrium
David Murakami Wood will talk about 'listening' as a surveillance practice, with particular reference to the development of coastal listening stations in the UK (the... Read more about @title...
Theme Issue of Surveillance & Society edited by: Jennifer R. Whitson and Bart Simon submission deadline: September 15th 2013 for publication March 2014.
The games we play on our computers, iPads, and video game consoles are watching us. They track our every online move and send data on who we are, how we play, and whom we... Read more about @title...
On being awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship.
Congratulations to NewT members Kiyoshi Abe of Kwansei Gakuin University and David Murakami Wood of the SSC at Queen’s University who have just been awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship for David for his project, 'Surveillance in the... Read more about @title...
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... Read more about @title...
Report "Beyond Big Data Surveillance: Freedom and Fairness" sheds light on big data surveillance in Canada To read the report in English, go here To read the report in French,... Read more about @title...
