"Big Data and Surveillance: Hype, Commercial Logics and New Intimate Spheres", Edited by Kirstie Ball and William Webster, Big Data & Society 7(1), May 14, 2020.
“Data-Driven Elections”,Edited by Colin Bennett and David Lyon, Internet Policy Review 8(4), December 31, 2019.
The Canada Council awards 2020 Molson Prize to David Lyon for his invaluable contributions to the field of surveillance studies.
The SSC is hard at work during the global Coronavirus pandemic. The surveillance dimensions of efforts to slow the spread of the virus are tremendous and far-reaching. Indeed, they are not only global but planetary. Continue reading...
Screening Surveillance is a short film series that uses near-future fiction storytelling, based on research, to highlight potential social and privacy issues that arise as a result of big data surveillance.
The Surveillance Studies Centre (SSC) at Queen’s University is committed to high quality research on the growth of surveillance globally, exploring many aspects of contemporary monitoring, tracking, management and control. The SSC is also part of a broad network of surveillance research that is both multi-disciplinary and international.
The primary funding of the Surveillance Studies Centre (SSC) is from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). We are currently working on a five-year Big Data Surveillance (BDS) project funded by a SSHRC Partnership Grant. The Big Data Surveillance project examines the relationship between big data and surveillance in three linked streams: security, marketing, and governance.
Surveillance of many kinds is growing rapidly throughout the world and the Surveillance Studies Centre (SSC) at Queen’s University is committed to high quality research to follow such developments.
The Surveillance Studies Centre
Queen's University
Department of Sociology
Kingston, ON
K7L 3N6 Canada
