Department of Sociology

What does a smart city look like? Will technology rule? Or, should technology be a means to an end in creating a good city where diverse human beings can flourish?

David Lyon: The information revolution, surveillance and the law

moonr — Fri, 03 May 2019 18:17:00 +0000

Internationally renowned as our Chair of Surveillance Studies and the Director of the ��˴�Ƭ Surveillance Studies Centre, Professor Lyon has a cross-appointment from Sociology to the Faculty of Law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1stc3WbrsFM

David Murakami Wood: Royal Society of Canada

moonr — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:09:56 +0000

Dr. David Murakami Wood, a member of the Royal Society of Canada – College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists program discusses key issues of democracy and human rights in relation to security, surveillance, identity and privacy. His work has covered new surveillance technologies, the globalization of surveillance, and comparative studies of surveillance in global cities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6hO4vhFB0A

As Far as Possible, No Salmon

kvd1 — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:20:40 +0000

Scott Thompson

This metal tag and list of conditions formed the foundation for the surveillance and management of First Nations fishing practices in 1920s British Columbia. Scott Thompson, a Banting postdoctoral fellow in the Surveillance Studies Centre, is researching how surveillance technologies, like this one, that were designed and implemented by the Canadian government, not only asserted a particular vision of how First Nations peoples ought to behave and enforced this vision, but in doing so, also contributed to the establishment of hurtful “Indian” stereotypes that are still with us today.

Submission Year:

2015-16

From the Babysitter to Alexa: Surveillance is All Around

stratg — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 18:53:09 +0000

Dr. David Lyon is Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre and Professor of Sociology and Law at Queen’s University. Dr. Lyon is credited with spearheading the field of “surveillance studies,” and he has produced a steady stream of books and articles on the subject. His most recent book, The Culture of Surveillance: Watching as a Way of Life, looks at the imaginaries and practices of everyday surveillance. Dr. Lyon is also the Principal Investigator of the “Big Data Surveillance” project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.