Here is a call for grad student participants on a panel that resonates with our conversations in seminar yesterday. For your interest…
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Ubiquitous Surveillance
Graduate Student Panel Proposal for Canadian Communication Association
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Regina, 30 May- 1 June 2018
Chair: Randal Rogers, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina
Contact: randal.rogers@uregina.ca
As technologies define and develop ever-expanding ways to connect individuals to forms of governance, control, and resistance, surveillance remains a question of ongoing critical interest and responsibility. Drones, wearables, biometrics, stalking, cyberservants, activity tracking, trolling, border patrols, espionage, digital trails, id and credit cards, CCTV, cyber bullying, voting, RFID tagging, drug testing, film, television and other media representation—today we are immersed in systems that involve surveillance to a degree never before seen. As privacy fades and we become increasingly comfortable with lives publicized through technology’s screens things like capital, labour, the State, and their influence over us are obscured. At the same time, surveillance technologies are used to resist these same entities through protest, media/art making, forms of hacking, etc. For this graduate student panel, proposals are invited for papers that engage the issue of surveillance broadly defined, including but not limited to: policy and governance, military deployment, social media, film/television, surveillance technologies, citizen uses of surveillance, theory, and art practice.
Each panel presenter will receive up to $500 for a travel grant sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute, University of Regina.
PAPER PROPOSALS must include:
– Author’s name, rank/status, and affiliation. Please use full first name (not an initial) and properly capitalize all names.
– Paper title. Please be brief because longer titles may be truncated during the online submission process.
– An abstract (between 350 to 500 words) outlining: the research object, problem or question; the main findings, argument or inquiry to be developed; the method of analysis used; the significance of what is proposed in relation to existing scholarship in the field. Do not submit a list of bibliographical references.
If you are interested in participating in this panel please submit your proposal to Randal Rogers (randal.rogers@uregina.ca) by 28 Jan. 2018. Selected presenters will be informed by 31 Jan.
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