 |
 |
We would like to invite you to the following CAMRI research seminar next Wednesday: ‘The Internet of Things’ – Lecture & Book Launch Mercedes Bunz & Graham Meikle [University of Westminster] Date: Wednesday, 22 Nov 2017 Time: 5-7pm 309 Regent Street, W1B 2HT Room: UG04 Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mercedes-bunz-graham-meikle-the-internet-of-things-tickets-37754046369 More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things – from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house – have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things have become media, able both to generate and communicate information. In this talk that launches their new book, Graham Meikle and Mercedes Bunz discuss its promises of convenience and the breaking of new frontiers in communication. They also raise urgent questions regarding ubiquitous surveillance, networked sensors, and artificial intelligence, as well as the transformation of intimate personal information into commercial data. Biographies Graham Meikle is Professor of Communication and Digital Media at the University of Westminster. His books include Social Media (Routledge 2016), Media Convergence (with Sherman Young, Palgrave Macmillan 2012) and The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism (editor, forthcoming 2018). Mercedes Bunz is Senior Lecturer at CAMRI, University of Westminster. Her books include The Silent Revolution: How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism, and Politics Without Making Too Much Noise (Palgrave 2014). She co-edited Terra Critica: Symptoms of our Planetary Condition (Meson Press 2017) and contributed chapters on technology, work and capital http://meson.press/books/symptoms-of-the-planetary-condition/ . Next CAMRI seminars Thur, 7 Dec David Morley [Goldsmiths] Geographies of Communication: The Migrant, the Mobile Phone and the Container Box https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-morley-goldsmiths-new-geographies-of-communication-tickets-37871155646 The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.