Feb. 14, 2017
11:30 – 2:30
91راة«
Senate Chamber
N940 Ross Building
Participants:
Rob Heynen (Communication Studies, 91راة«)
Robert Latham (Political Science, 91راة«)
Emily van der Meulen (Criminology, Ryerson University)
Alok Mukherjee (Criminology, Ryerson University)
Jonathan Obar (Communication Studies, 91راة«)
Evan Light (Communication Studies, Glendon, 91راة«)
Bahar Nasirzadeh (Communication and Culture, 91راة«-Ryerson Universities)
Ozgun Topak (Social Science, 91راة«)
Greg Elmer (Professional Communication, Ryerson University)
Chair: Ganaele Langlois (91راة«)
This roundtable addresses contemporary issues in surveillance studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. Participants will discuss current issues in contemporary forms of surveillance: New surveillance regimes in troubled democracies (i.e. USA, Turkey) and in Canada; the role of networks, algorithms and big data in surveillance; routine targeting of populations; legal challenges to surveillance policies; biopolitics and policing; gender and surveillance, among others.