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Surveillance

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Surveillance is a mode of power based on the detailed and totalized observation of behavior. It is the prevailing form of power developed and deployed in modernity

Panopticon

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The panopticon is a structure of power-knowledge, used by Michel Foucault to describe a system in which totalized surveillance can be organized.

Surveillance capitalism

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Surveillance capitalism is an economic order and logic that claims human experience and behavior as free raw material for commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales.

Diggit profile: Kristof Verfaillie on security and surveillance

Interview

Jan Blommaert

16/01/2020

Criminologist Kristof Verfaillie discusses the totalizing and counterproductive aspects of contemporary, technologically shaped security and surveillance regimes.

Why we let Web 2.0 become the modern-day Stasi

Article

Lisa van Turnhout

11/01/2020

14 minutes to read

This article contemplates how our "culture of connectivity" brings forth privacy issues reminding us of government surveillance in East Germany. How does this work, and how do we all contribute to this culture?

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Ben Van Duppen on Smart Cities and democracy - Babylon's Burning

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The Editors

23/09/2019

According to Ben Van Duppen (Antwerp University, Belgium) we should rethink the concept of smart cities from a democratic and commons perspective.

Can ancestry tests become a threat to our privacy?

Article

Carmen Gabriela Lupu

22/05/2019

11 minutes to read

With the increasing popularity of ancestry tests, having our DNA used by big corporations might pose a threat to our privacy. This article analyzes the possible impact of such data-driven businesses on our lives.

Dr. Linnet Taylor on data justice

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The Editors

13/03/2019

Would you like to live in a world with perfect discrimination? Probably not. That's why thinking and talking about data justice is important. Dr. Linnet Taylor from Tilburg University explains.

The politics of Google

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Google is your best friend. That is the answer one usually gets when one ask for some piece of information. This answer can be read as an index of a very influential media ideology: that Google is a benevolent, neutral instrument providing users with the truth. Reality is a bit more complicated. In this file, we zoom in on the politics of Google.

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The age of surveillance capitalism ( Shoshana Zuboff)

Review

Ico Maly

13/02/2019

12 minutes to read

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff deserves a productive public and academic debate. It should not only be read and discussed by a broad audience. Scholars across disciplines must engage with it.

Is Google politically biased?

Article

Tunde Farago

21/12/2018

9 minutes to read

In this article, the issue of political bias is analyzed in relation to the algorithms behind the Google search engine.