New Issue: Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic
The latest (March) issue of Surveillance & Society is out with a special Dialogue section on “Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The issue also offers lots of other material, including an introductory editorial on COVID-19, racial violence, and transparency. Spread the word!
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Editorial
Reckoning with COVID, Racial Violence, and the Perilous Pursuit of Transparency (Torin Monahan) [PDF]
Articles
The Resonate Prison: Earwitnessing the Panacoustic Affect (Greg Elmer, Stephen J. Neville) [PDF]
Data Management for Platform-Mediated Public Services: Challenges and Best Practices (Agnieszka Rychwalska, Geoffrey Goodell, Magdalena Roszczynska-Kurasinska) [PDF]
Representations of Surveillance and Perceptual Technologies at Military Museums (Kevin Walby, Haley Pauls) [PDF]
“Now We Are Struggling at Least”: Change & Continuity of Surveillance in Post-Communist Societies from the Perspective of Data Protection Authorities (Ola Svenonius, Ekaterina Tarasova) [PDF]
Negotiations of In/Visibility: Surveillance in Hito Steyerl’s How Not to be Seen (Joachim Friis) [PDF]
Dialogue
Introduction: Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Views from Around the World (Bryce Newell) [PDF]
Israel’s Mass Surveillance during COVID-19: A Missed Opportunity (Avi Marciano) [PDF]
Chinese Public’s Support for COVID-19 Surveillance in Relation to the West (Chuncheng Liu) [PDF]
China’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Surveillance and Autonomy (Marcella Siqueira Cassiano, Kevin Haggerty, Ausma Bernot) [PDF]
Authoritarian Surveillance: A Corona Test (Azadeh Akbari) [PDF]
Aadhaar in a Box? Legitimizing Digital Identity in Times of Crisis (Aaron Martin) [PDF]
Covidiots as Global Acceleration of Local Surveillance Practices (Daniel Trottier, Qian Huang, Rashid Gabdulhakov) [PDF]
COVID-19
Nontargets: Understanding the Apathy Towards the Israeli Security Agency’s COVID-19 Surveillance (Shaul A Duke) [PDF]
Book Reviews
Review of Trottier, Gabdulhakov, and Huang’s Introducing Vigilant Audiences (Shaul A Duke) [PDF]
Review of Taylor, Sharma, Martin, and Jameson’s Data Justice and COVID-19: Global Perspectives (Jonathan Cinnamon) [PDF]
Review of Lageson’s Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice (P Arun) [PDF]
Review of Whelan and Molnar’s Securing Mega-Events: Networks, Strategies, and Tensions (James Sheptycki) [PDF]
Review of DeBrabander’s Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society (Deborah Komarnisky) [PDF]
Arts Forum
Systems of Choreography: Performing Normal in Public (Molly Roy) [PDF]
