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Professors Natasha Tusikov and Merouan Mekouar in the Department of Social Science have co-edited a special issue of Surveillance & Society, a peer-reviewed journal featuring interdisciplinary papers on surveillance, politics and policy. The journal is published by the Surveillance Studies Network Canada.  

This special issue, titled Resisting Surveillance Through Data Visibility and Invisibility investigates workplace surveillance, including Ring doorbells, facial-recognition technologies, period-tracking apps, LGBTQ+ censorship on social media and activist interventions by Forensic Architecture.  

Tusikov’s research focuses on the intersection of law, crime, technology and regulation.She is also a research fellow with the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech Lab) in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. 

Mekouar’s research focuses on social movements, authoritarianism, norm diffusion and political economy in the Middle East and North Africa. He received his PhD in political science from McGill in 2013. 

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