[Air-L] Conference on Surveillance and Citizenship

Lina Dencik DencikL at cardiff.ac.uk
Fri May 29 06:22:28 PDT 2015


Members of this list might be interested in the following.

Registration is now open for the international conference:

Surveillance and Citizenship: State-Media-Citizen Relations after the Snowden Leaks
Cardiff University, 18-19 June 2015

The conference will bring together international scholars, representatives of digital rights organisations, technological developers, and surveillance experts to discuss the state of surveillance and the implications of the Snowden revelations. Two years after the leaks began, we will review their media representation, policy developments, impacts on activism and civil society, and technological responses. The conference will include strategy sessions on policy reform and a usability and security hackathon.

Speakers include Ben Wizner (ACLU, Snowden's lawyer), Mark Andrejevic (Ponoma College), Kirstie Ball (Open University), Gus Hosein (Privacy International), Annie Machon (former MI5 whistleblower), Tony Bunyan (Statewatch), James Ball (The Guardian), Andrew Clement (University of Toronto), Ian Brown (Oxford University), Seda Guerses (New York University), Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Cardiff University), Gavin MacFadyen (Centre for Investigative Journalism), Anne Roth (German Parliamentary Inquiry on Mass Surveillance).

Programme: http://www.dcssproject.net/conference-programme/
Registration: http://www.dcssproject.net/conference/conference-registration/ (£50, £30 for students/unwaged)
How to get there: http://www.dcssproject.net/conference/how-to-get-here/
Where to stay: http://www.dcssproject.net/conference/where-to-stay/

More about the 'Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society' project: http://www.dcssproject.net/about/

We hope to see you in Cardiff on 18/19 June!

Best,

Lina
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Dr Lina Dencik
Lecturer / Director MA Journalism, Media and Communication
School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3NB
Email: DencikL at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL at cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75461
Twitter: @LinaDencik

Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University
Co-I, Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society, www.dcssproject.net<http://www.dcssproject.net/>





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