[Air-L] Targeted: Corporations and the Police Surveillance Economy, book talk and discussion w/ Kelly Gates, April 22nd 5pm UK time

[Patrick Smith]

Dear colleagues,

With apologies for cross-posting.

The Emergent Nonfiction Lab (part of the Counter Evidentiary Futures
project) at the University of Salford welcomes Professor Kelly Gates
(Associate Professor, Communication and Science Studies, UC San Diego) for
this online talk and discussion on her new book Targeted: Corporations and
the Police Surveillance Economy.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/targeted-corporations-and-the-police-surveillance-economy-w-kelly-gates-tickets-1984777876056

"Video cameras are everywhere: attached to buildings, drones, and
dashboards; embedded in smartphones, laptops, and doorbells; worn on police
uniforms and sunglasses. In Targeted, Kelly Gates argues that the resulting
avalanche of video has transformed the landscape of policing and security
in the twenty-first century. Video production, analysis, and archival
management are now central to the ways police power is exercised, criminal
law enforced, and spaces of human habitation securitized.

Gates examines the primacy of video in four key areas of policing and
security: the field of digital multimedia forensics, private video
surveillance infrastructure development, police body-worn camera systems,
and video analytics for automated surveillance (Video AI). Case studies of
two companies illustrate the role of corporations in these far-reaching
media-technological changes. Target Corporation has integrated its retail
security operations with law enforcement, expanding its surveillance beyond
its stores and parking lots and into the criminal legal system. Axon
Enterprise is leveraging the growing volume of police body-cam video to
build a large-scale proprietary platform for policing.

Targeted reveals the role of video infrastructure development in the
increasingly entangled relationship between the modern police and the
modern corporation, in the long wake and ruins of neoliberalism."

Kelly Gates is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at
the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Our Biometric
Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance, as
well as the editor of International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, Vol. 6:
Media Studies Futures and The New Media of Surveillance. Her writing has
appeared in numerous journals, including Surveillance & Society,
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Social Semiotics.

Best,
Patrick
-- 
Dr. Patrick Brian Smith
Assistant Professor and University Fellow
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology
University of Salford