Surveillance and Citizenship State-Media-Citizen Relations After the Snowden Leaks
Conference and Workshop in collaboration with "Unlike Us" 18-19 June 2015 Cardiff University, UK Speakers include: Ben Wizner (ACLU, Edward Snowden’s lawyer) Caspar Bowden (former Chief Privacy Adviser for Microsoft) Mark Andrejevic (Ponoma College, US) Kirstie Ball (Open University, UK) Seda Gürses (New York University, US) Tony Bunyan (Statewatch) The conference will bring together leading UK and international scholars, and representatives of organisations such as Privacy International, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Tactical Tech, Open Rights Group, and the Centre for Investigative Journalism. Submission deadline: *15 February 2015* Please submit a 300-500 word abstract to dcssproj...@cardiff.ac.uk. We invite submissions of academic paper proposals, as well as proposals for workshops, hackathons and project presentations. The conference will combine academic analysis and practical workshops. Two years after the Snowden revelations started, the conference "Surveillance and Citizenship" will review their impacts and consequences for state policy, technological development, internet uses and the media. It will address the following questions: • What is the policy environment for surveillance and the work of intelligence agencies? Which policy reform proposals have emerged? • Which technical platforms have been particularly vulnerable; what tools exist for secure communication; and what standards are required for privacy protection? • What is the level of public reaction? How do people perceive digital surveillance? • What are the implications of surveillance for journalism, activism and social movements? • Have the media reported accurately on the leaks? Which challenges have emerged for journalists? • What is the nature of citizenship in the 'Snowden Era'? Further conference information: http://www.dcssproject.net/conference/ Contact: dcssproj...@cardiff.ac.uk Conference organizing committee: Arne Hintz (Cardiff University) Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Cardiff University) Lina Dencik (Cardiff University) Ian Brown (Oxford University) Michael Rogers (Briar Project, Technical University of Delft) Jonathan Cable (Cardiff University) -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
