[Sci-tech-public] MIT Commnunications Forum reminder: "Surveillance and Citizenship" this Thursday, Oct. 27, 5-7 pm, in the Bartos Theater (Media Lab)

[Brad Seawell]

Surveillance and Citizenship



Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011
5-7 pm. 
Bartos Theater <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E15> 
MIT Media Lab
20 Ames Street

Digital technologies have exponentially expanded the power of government and
corporations to keep tabs on citizens. But citizens in turn are exploiting
new technologies to expose the activities of governments, companies and even
each other. How does the persistence and ubiquity of surveillance in our
digitizing world affect what it means to be a citizen? Does our emerging
condition of constant surveillance encourage individuals to curtail how they
speak and act -- or to offer more information? In what ways are the new
forms of citizen surveillance and public witness instruments of democracy
and transparency? In what ways are they the tools of distortion and
propaganda for idealogues or special interest? 

Speakers

Our panel of three distinguished scholars will engage these and related
questions on evolving notions of citizenship in the digital age. Panelists
include  <http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/communication/faculty/braman.cfm>
Sandra Braman, a professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee who has written extensively on information technology, law and
society;  <http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2011slandau.aspx>
Susan Landau, a visiting professor at Harvard University and author of
Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies
recently published by The MIT Press; and
<http://www.science.ucsb.edu/faculty/profile/473> Marcos Novak, professor
and artist at the University of California, Santa Barbara whose work
explores the relationship between humans and technology. 

MIT Center for Civic Media Director
<http://www.media.mit.edu/people/ethanz> Ethan Zuckerman will moderate.

Co-sponsor: Technology and Culture Forum at MIT <http://web.mit.edu/tac/> 

 

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MIT Communications Forum
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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voice 617-253-3521
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