Living in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism Seminar - Glasgow University
Colleagues may be interested in this seminar taking place at the University of Glasgow on Wednesday 12th June. All welcome. *Living in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism* 12 June 2019, 3.00-5.30pm Adam Smith Building Room 916 University of Glasgow Myriad aspects of the everyday have been ‘datafied’, deepening the pervasiveness of a new logic of accumulation focused on data extraction and analysis seeking to make profit by predicting and modifying human behaviour. Four leading scholars in the field of digital communications and society will discuss the challenges posed to society and democracy by this sprawling type of 'surveillance capitalism' (Zuboff 2019). *Speakers* *Zoetanya Sujon*, London College of Communication, UAL *The Rise of Platform Empires: Sociality as Mass Deception* *Morgan Currie*, University of Edinburgh *Before the Bullet Hits the Body: Organising Against Predictive Policing in Los Angeles* *Jennifer Pybus,* King’s College London *iData: Politics of Personalisation on our Mobile Devices* *Sally Wyatt*, Maastricht University *Health and Healthcare in a System of Surveillance Capitalism* Full details and registration information are available on Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/2VjLfZJ <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2VjLfZJ&data=02%7C01%7C%7C4ede05d198ba40938e4e08d6d78cf16a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636933397669547632&sdata=pQ4utub9D7%2FlAFR2vwlT1DHAzpples3Tm%2B2k4Y%2B2uhc%3D&reserved=0> . Best wishes Dr Justine Gangneux Dr Stevie Docherty University of Glasgow
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