I have another new piece just out, considering the intersection of #surveillance and #ScienceFiction, this time in the context of the the ideologies of tech oligarchs, in Science as Culture, edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social and Les Levidow... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m organizing a panel on "Interrogating State Surveillance in Authoritarian Times” at the next 4S [@4sweb.bsky.social] conference in Toronto. Please consider submitting an abstract! #surveillance #authoritarianism Submission deadline: April 30, 2026 Website: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

It's publication day for the "Surveillance and Literature" special issue I edited for Surveillance & Society! ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... A 🧵 of few thoughts about the project (after spending a LOT of time with it this past year):

"Anyone who submits hallucinated references should be sanctioned. Desk reject and one-year ban." dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and...

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role: undertake a data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland + interviews with key stakeholders. Closing date 31 March 2026. Details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Excellent new film review by @deena-varner.bsky.social on Surveillance & Society’s blog, Blink. medium.com/surveillance...

Join us for three amazing events on queer crip pleasure, art, and activism with @drsamischalk.bsky.social, our speaker for the prestigious Mandel Lecture in the Humanities.

Of course law enforcement can access Ring footage. Surveillance scholars have been documenting this for years.

"Safari Surveillance: A Reflection on Seeing and Being Seen in Kruger National Park" by Julia Rootenberg. Love to see this new post in the Surveillance & Society blog, _blink. #surveillance #wildlife #Kruger medium.com/surveillance...

Steph Brown [@stephjayb.bsky.social] has just won the 2025 Surveillance Studies Book Prize for Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905–1924. This is an incredible book that everyone should read. Congrats, Steph!! ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Just received this incisive new book about government #surveillance abuses and crimes during the 1970s. Totally prescient for today’s world. @mguariglia.bsky.social iglia.bsky.social & @brianhochman.bsky.social ochman.bsky.social have made a major contribution here! wwnorton.com/books/the-ch...

In case you missed it over the holidays, Surveillance & Society published a great new issue. There’s a section on “Global Futures of Digital Confinement,” a dialogue on 25 years after the “surveillant assemblage,” and much more! #surveillance #openaccess ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

A group of Home Depot (HD.N) investors is asking the company to review its partnership with surveillance firm Flock Safety and state how its data is used and shared with law enforcement, following reports by an independent media outlet that the vendor's data has… www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Iran’s Case Should Put an End to Illusions About Digital Sovereignty, by @azadehakbari.bsky.social for @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Important not just for #Iran, but to counter the growing tendency to see #nationalism as a solution to platform #capitalism. www.techpolicy.press/irans-case-s...

Wrote about some of the visuals in suffrage newspapers (1910-1914) as surveillance art the aimed at conveying state brutality for Modernism/modernity (@mmodernity.bsky.social). It came out on Print+ over the holiday! 1/ modernismmodernity.org/articles/bro...

These new plans are an important reminder that ICE is still getting its infrastructure in place, and they are relying on being able to co-opt state and local law enforcement officers to carry out their agenda. Fighting the spread of 287(g) agreements is critically important.

"The epistemological exchange that allows AI-generated imagery [...] to operate as a proxy artifact of photographic history endows it with an artificial relationship between truth and representation that is subtly leveraged in disinformation campaigns."

📝 Our Fall 2025 issue of the SKAT Newsletter is out! See inside for information about SKAT sessions at #ASA2026, a call for award nominations, Q&As with book authors, and more. asaskat.com/wp-content/u...

All these edtech and AIed testbeds don't follow the evidence-based "what works" policy model that's dominated education for years. They're *making* AI work in real-world school settings to generate insights for policy and tech. Schools are AI testing labs now.

"Critics of adversarial fashion say because the surveillance state is so complex and wide-reaching, anti-surveillance fashion is more effective at raising awareness than actually changing the status quo." Yes, I'm one of the critics! #surveillance #resistance

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED. So here:

BREAKING: Amnesty International, S.T.O.P. Lawsuit Reveals NYPD Surveillance Abuses #BanTheScan @amnestyuk.bsky.social "New York promises to be a sanctuary city, but we’ve created nothing short of a surveillance state." - S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples: atlasofsurveillance.org/

"If they have this much money, this much ability to peer into everyone’s private lives, it raises some fundamental questions about where American democracy is going." @foxcahn.bsky.social #ICE www.aljazeera.com/video/digita...

This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Roomba should have been a warning.

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

In my experience, climate committed youth are especially unaware of the impact meat eating has on the planet. “Food and agriculture contribute one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions – second only to the burning of fossil fuels.” #vegetarianism

Quite disturbing unlawful collection of DNA by CBP.

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 62 www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Come to hear @mharrisondupre.bsky.social , @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dismantle the misplaced enthusiasm for chatbots in therapy, stay for the literal word sausages.

🚨New Publication Alert: “Silencing Dissent: Surveillance and Police Actions on University Campuses during Pro-Palestinian Protests” 🚨 This article explores #surveillance, #violence, and #dissent on university campuses in the United States. tinyurl.com/4fr95zxy

Surveillance & Society has published a great new issue—w/ articles on data leaks, ceasefire monitoring, campus #protests, & much more! The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Flock lied to cities and it has come out that federal immigration agents had direct access to Flock's networks. www.9news.com/article/news...

Give @kashhill.bsky.social all the garlands for her dogged, brave reporting yet again. It's shameful, outrageous and enraging that we allow tech companies to deploy AI products that cause harm to people--teenagers, Black fathers, mentally ill persons--every day. Enough is enough.

Paul Lynch’s _Prophet Song_ is an absolutely devastating novel that really got under my skin. It convincingly depicts a gradual slide into #totalitarianism, but on an intimate, human level. @ubisurv.net, if you haven’t read this one, I’m pretty sure you would like it.

OPD is attempting to expand its surveillance system to be able to easily integrate footage from public and private security cameras into one centralized database under the Flock system, a massive AI-powered tracking system that has been metastasizing across the country in the past two years. 1/x

[Publication Alert]: "Leaving Academia: Dual-Career Relationships and Partners’ Attrition from Academic Careers" 22% of aspiring academics who have an academic partner end up leaving academia. Women are most impacted. That's a lot of attrition! #openaccess www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....

“Is it surprising that Trump’s stormtroopers are acting with impunity? [No.] But is it shocking to see a man—someone’s family member, someone’s friend, someone’s neighbor—being brutalized by agents who are fully aware they’re being watched and recorded? Yes. And I hope it remains shocking.”

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

I feel very lucky to have gotten a chance to talk about “AI” with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social — authors of The AI Con. Enjoy the episode! pca.st/episode/ee9c...

The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award. The deadline for receipt of books from the publisher is October 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Hybrid workshop where you can hear from Lucy Suchman, HCI legend and organizer with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the amazing Joan Greenbaum with Computer People for Peace, and other awesome organizers from #notechforapartheid and other tech-ademia organizing efforts

The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for its 2026 Arts Prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations is August 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

📢 Our latest blog post is live! 'Anyone Who’s Watching Can See That You’re Watching, Too' by @corinnejones.bsky.social - about the relationship b/w #consumption, #visibility labours, & social media’s #surveillance economy. Find this & our other great contributions here: medium.com/surveillance...

In the new TMK, we dive into a secret partnership between the New Orleans Police Department and Project NOLA, a private organisation that owns and operates an extensive network of facial recognition cameras covering New Orleans and running live analysis on the public. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...