News and Events

  1. The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting research project seeks to fill one post-doctoral fellow position, starting summer 2010 based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. This is a one year term position with the possibility of renewal.

  2. Sarah Cheung has taken over the role of Research Associate from Emily Smith, who has begun a year-long maternity leave.

  3. Congratulations to team members on their successful applications to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2010-11 Contributions Program.  

  4. Surveillance, Privacy, and the Globalization of Personal Information: International Comparisons now available from McGill-Queen’s University Press.

  5. Congratulations to Stephen Graham on his new publication Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism, Verso, May 2010.

  6. on Surveillance and Security: “Exploring U.S. Department of Homeland Security Fusion Centers."

    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

  7. A new website on deep packet inspection in Canada is now online: www.deeppacketinspection.ca. Deep packet inspection is a networking technology that ISPs use to garner actionable network intelligence about their customers' data traffic.

  8. Congratulations to Nelson Arteaga Botello on his recent publication Sociedad de la vigilancia en Sur-Global (Surveillance Society in the Global South) Mexico: Miguel Angel Porrua and UAEM, 2009.

  9. A Research Workshop
    Open University Business School, UK
    Sept 9 – 12 2010

    500 word abstracts for original academic papers on the Political Economy of Surveillance
    should be sent to the co-organizers: Dr Kirstie Ball, Open University Business School
    and Professor Laureen Snider, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University. The deadline for proposals is April 30th, 2010.

  10. A group of researchers who participated in the Surveillance Games Research Workshop Nov. 20-21 in Vancouver, B.C. have drafted a joint statement on security, surveillance and mega-events for public release.