Dear colleagues,
we're sure you all agree that the most recent developments in the US have confirmed again the importance of continuing critical scholarly debate on the scope and implications of current surveillance practices.
We would like to draw your attention to the 2nd Ethics of Surveillance Conference taking place at the University of Leeds on the 24th and 25th of June - registration is open until the 17th of June.
Keynote addresses:
Prof. Gary Marx
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, M.I.T., United States
"An Ethics for the New Surveillance Revisited: What a Difference 15 Years Makes - Or does it?"
Prof. Christian Fuchs
Professor of Social Media at the University of Westminster's Communication and Media Research Institute and the Centre for Social Media Research
"Why We Need Critical Political Economy for Studying Surveillance"
Dr. Kirstie Ball
Reader in Surveillance and Organisation at the Open University Business School, Milton Keynes
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Dr. Mark Andrejevic
Deputy Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia
"The Target is the Population: Surveillance in the Data Mine"
Prof. Charles Raab
Professor of Government at the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science
"The Meaning and Importance of Accountability for Surveillance"
A detailed programme is available at http://bit.ly/12eZLEA
To register, please visit http://tinyurl.com/surveillanceethics
The registration fee for both days is £50.00, for one day £30.00 and includes lunches and refreshments.
We anticipate a very lively discussion and hope to welcome as many of you as possible.
The conference organizers.
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Heidi Herzogenrath-Amelung,
PhD Researcher at the University of Leeds' Institute of Communications
Studies
Kevin Macnish
PhD Researcher and Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds' Centre for
Interdisciplinary Applied Ethics
Pinelopi Troullinou
PhD Researcher at the Open University Business School
Conference coordinators
Founders of the research group IC ICTs: Research Group on ICTs, Surveillance
& Society
http://icicts.wordpress.com/
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