Surveillance Studies Network

Three police officers standing in front of Gaza solidarity encampment tents at Columbia University. (Photo credit: Wm3214 via Wikimedia Commons.)

Surveillance & Society has published a great new issue—w/ articles on data leaks, ceasefire monitoring, campus #protests, & much more! The journal is always fully #openaccess.

Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

🎉 We are excited to announce the 2024 winners of our #Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher prize for publications in our journal, Surveillance & Society 🎉

Check out their fantastic papers here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Congratulations to the winners!!

SSN Arts Prize description text.

The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for its 2026 Arts Prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations is August 15th, 2025.
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SSN Book Prize summary text.

The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award. The deadline for receipt of books from the publisher is October 15th, 2025.
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Anyone Who’s Watching Can See That You’re Watching, Too In this post, Corinne Jones reflects on her article ‘“Anyone Who’s Watching Can See That You’re Watching, Too”: A Case Study of Prosumption…

📢 Our latest blog post is live!

'Anyone Who’s Watching Can See That You’re Watching, Too' by @corinnejones.bsky.social - about the relationship b/w #consumption, #visibility labours, & social media’s #surveillance economy.

Find this & our other great contributions here: medium.com/surveillance...

Map of USA showing automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks. From flock.ajith.fyi.

PUBLISHED: New open issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess.

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Contesting Surveillance: What Tunisian Imams Taught Me In this post, Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu reflects on his article ‘Vernacular Security and Religion in Tunisia: The Role of Local Imams in the…

📢 Our latest blog post is live:

'Contesting Surveillance: What Tunisian Imams Taught Me' by @fabriziol.bsky.social - a discussion of #surveillance, #security, violent extremism, and radicalisation.

Find this great contribution (and check out all of our others!) here: medium.com/surveillance...

Styling the Surveillance Self in Fashion Media In this post, Louisa Rogers reflects on her article ‘Styling the Surveillance Self in Fashion Media: Strategies of Sexualization and…

📢 Our latest blog post is out:

'Styling the #Surveillance Self in #Fashion Media' by Louisa Rogers - a fascinating exploration of security and surveillance in fashion photography.

Read it (& all our others) here: medium.com/surveillance...

We are excited to announce the 11th Biennial #Surveillance Studies Network Conference happening 9th-12th June 2026, in Lille, France. It includes a #PhD Colloquium.

#SSN2026 is hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social ETHICS & ISTC.

Look out for more info soon...

And get those abstracts ready!

Scatological Humour and the Absent Anthropology of Privacy In this post, Vita Peacock reflects on her article ‘Scatological Humour and the Absent Anthropology of Privacy’, which appeared in the…

📢 Our latest blog post is out:

'Scatological Humour and the Absent #Anthropology of #Privacy' by Vita Peacock - examining how scatological references are used satirically to make statements about contemporary #digital #surveillance.

Read it (& all our others) here: medium.com/surveillance...

When Watching Each Other Becomes a Matter of Survival: Surveillance and Coexistence in Jungle… In this post, Camilo Tamayo Gomez reflects on his article ‘Analysing Mutual Surveillance Practices During Long-Term Kidnapping Situations…

We're pleased to share our latest blog post:

'When Watching Each Other Becomes a Matter of Survival' by Camilo Tamayo Gomez - analysing mutual #surveillance, #power & #control during long-term kidnappings.

You can read it (and check out all of our others) here: medium.com/surveillance...

Squeeveillance In this post, Garfield Benjamin reflects on their article ‘Squeeveillance: Performing Cuteness to Normalise Surveillance Power’, which…

📢 Excited to share our latest blog post:

'Squeeveillance' by Garfield Benjamin - a discussion on domestic #surveillance, #Ring doorbell media, and the power of #cuteness in the surveillant assemblage

You can read it here (make sure to check out the other posts too!): medium.com/surveillance...

Huge thanks to @marielgm.bsky.social for writing a review of The Walls Have Eyes for Surveillance & Society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social (open access too!)

The editorial „sketches some of the key dangers presented by the second Trump presidency“ and reading this just send chills down my spine

The first issue of Surveillance & Society of 2025 is out, including 6 original articles, a dialogue section on “Authoritarian Surveillance,” an editorial on Trump’s second presidency & 4 book reviews. #surveillance #authoritarianism #data #privacy

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Inflation’s spies In this post, Aaron Shapiro reflects on his article ‘Price Monitoring, or Where Surveillance Studies Meets the Sociology of Price…

Lil write up I did about my surveillance & soc article for @survstudiesnet.bsky.social about price surveillance and inflation medium.com/surveillance...

We're sorry, but we don't know. The best thing would be to encourage your (university) library to order it.

We have our AGM this week, and will be able to let everyone know soon afterwards.

Abstract yellow cover of Profiles and Plotlines, by Katherine D. Johnston.

We're delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 Surveillance Book Prize is: Profiles and Plotlines, by Katherine D. Johnston (University of Iowa Press).

Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Jan 2024 We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.

Our January newsletter is out!
Read about Syrian surveillance revelation after Assad's fall, India’s draft data protection rules, Latin America’s 2024 overview of AI Integration, @oiioxford.bsky.social's Global Southing Internet workshop & New OA Book on Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries.

A reminder that you have a week to go to submit abstracts for #SSN2025 in Ottawa, on #surveillance and #AI...

Surveillance & Society / SSN is looking for new Associate Editors for 3-year terms, to help spread our article review workload. Associate Editors are also members of the Network & Editorial Board which manages the journal and SSN. For more details, see here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

SSN and Surveillance & Society are looking for self-nominations for a new Communications Editor to join our board, run SSN's website, blog and more... deadline: January 6th 2025. #surveillance #academicsky

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📣 Announcement 📣 We've extended the deadline for submissions to the "Literature and Surveillance" Special Issue of Surveillance&Society (@survstudiesnet.bsky.social)!

New deadline is January 12, 2025, and I'm happy to answer questions about submissions. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

2024 year in review! We were very proud of this issue. Many thanks to the journal’s team, and especially to @torinmonahan.bsky.social for much support, patience, and guidance through the process!

Join our team! 🤗
Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World. Please follow the link for applications. We have a small budget to compensate for the hours.

Our first newsletter is up!
Read about some cool new tools, the false promise of biometrics by @lhreports.bsky.social, automation on the move by @algorithmwatch.bsky.social, listen to a podcast on Afrotopia, learn about India-Isreal AI weapon systems collaboration, & maybe decide to join our team!

All in all, a fantastic year! Thank-you to everyone who attended #SSN2024, and who chose to publish in Surveillance & Society, which remains 100% open access, free to submit, publish in, read etc. This means we rely on the work of our great editorial team:

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We also held our biennial conference in beautiful Ljubljana, Slovenia, in May 2024. We had a particularly active track from @surveillancemw.bsky.social, panels on #Palestine and #surveillance studies in #Africa, and we honoured Charles Raab for his work.