[ecrea] CFP: SSN 2016 - Surveillance: Power, Performance and Trust

cfp: Surveillance: Power, Performance and Trust

The 7th biennial Surveillance & Society conference of the Surveillance
Studies Network, hosted by Eticas Research & Consulting.

Thursday 21st – Saturday 23rd April 2016 in Barcelona

Complete information can be found and downloaded here:
http://www.surveillance-studies.net/?p=1162

Call for Registration of Interest and abstracts.
Surveillance in the 21st Century is characterised by performance, risk
scoring, ubiquitous data collection and analysis, algorithms as well as
intersecting and blurring power relations. As such surveillance
increasingly becomes an integral part of everyday life and professional
environments, symbolised by concepts such as the smart city, industry
4.0, smart homes and wearable computing. These new sorting and
controlling practices will prompt new forms of visibility, new modes of
power, as well as unintended consequences and cumulative disadvantages.
Scholars and other concerned individuals face numerous questions: How
will these new emerging cultures of surveillance interact with
democracy, society and citizenship? What impacts and interdependencies
can be observed? How should societies respond to these practices? How do
people cope with current features and practices as well as with the
historical legacies of surveillance regimes? What role does surveillance
play in social theories?

In this context the conference wishes to explore key themes, including
but not limited to:
- Democracy and surveillance
- Surveillance and everyday life
- Cultures and histories of surveillance
- Surveillance and digital/social media
- Value sensitive design and PETs
- Philosophy and theory of surveillance
- Ethics and Trust in and of surveillance
- Regulation, politics and governance of surveillance
- Algorithmic surveillance and big data
- Resistance to surveillance
- Non-technological surveillance

Important dates
 >>13 July 2015 Call for abstracts and intent issued
 >>31 August 2015 Deadline for initial registration of interest by email
to (ssn2016 /at/ surveillance-studies.net)
<mailto:(ssn2016 /at/ surveillance-studies.net)>
25 October 2015 Deadline submission of abstracts via EasyChair –
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssn2016barcelona
30 October 2015 Electronic booking form available – formal registration
and payment
15 December 2015 Notification to participants about decisions on abstracts
28 February 2016 Early Bird registration ends
25 March 2016: Submission of full papers
- Final Deadline for registration and payment for all conference attendees
- Launch of conference programme
7 April 2016 Papers published on Web available to all registered
conference attendees
20 April 2016 Pre-conference activities
21-23 April 2016 Conference in Barcelona

For paper presenters, a 300 word abstract will be required by 25th of
October 2015 and can be submitted using the EasyChair platform:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssn2016barcelona

Hope to see you all in Barcelona and looking forward to your abstracts.

Best wishes,
Daniel

Daniel Trottier, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Media & Communication
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Erasmus University Rotterdam
P.O. Box 1738, NL - 3000 DR
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
(trottier /at/ eshcc.eur.nl) <mailto:(trottier /at/ eshcc.eur.nl)>

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