Bryce Newell

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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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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🎉 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!!

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...

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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The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

An important message from the ABA:

"We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party ... change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less."

As a follow up, I've found Cox v. Turkey [2010] App. no. 2933/03 to be fairly on point. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=002-956

An interesting study, but the 404 article doesn't do a good job of differentiating between the literature review and the actual findings of this study. They attribute some of the findings in earlier literature related to automation to findings from the study reported in the study. It's sloppy.

Thanks! I'll take a look.

Is the US Republican Party on its way to becoming a totalitarian party? Asking for a friend...

8 U.S.C. § 1182(3)(D): "Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with . . . any . . . totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible."

Looking for legal cases/scholarship that examines freedom of expression rights of immigrants in the EU--specifically, are there legal decisions by the CJEU/ECtHR that discuss whether the exceptions to Article 10 (ECHR)/Article 11 (Charter) apply to limit the free expression rights of immigrants?

And... I know this isn't really what you asked for, but I really like this newer piece on theory in research (which speaks to methods of how to integrate, use, and think about theory in the research process): academic.oup.com/hcr/article/...

Sample Sizes for 10 Types of Qualitative Data Analysis: An Integrative Review, Empirical Guidance, and Next Steps - Amber Wutich, Melissa Beresford, H. Russell Bernard, 2024 There has been a recent explosion of articles on minimum sample sizes needed for analyzing qualitative data. The purpose of this integrated review is to examine...

This is a new one I plan to use next term, as it looks quite interesting: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (also from some of your colleagues at ASU!)

Methodology as a Knife Fight: The Process, Politics and Paradox of Evaluating Surveillance - Critical Criminology This paper uses the analogy of an unregulated fight to examine the rhetorical politics of evaluation research pertaining to surveillance measures. It outlines how, in addition to being standard fare i...

Perhaps a bit too surveillance/criminology focused for what you are looking for (?), but I find this one quite interesting and useful for provoking discussion: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Another of several worthwhile threads on the TikTik v. Garland (the TikTik ban case) decision today by the US Supreme Court:

One of several worthwhile threads on the TikTik v. Garland (the TikTik ban case) decision today by the US Supreme Court:

If anything, Issue #4 was my favourite of 2024, not least because of the special dialogue section on #syntheticdata, edited by @bcnewell.bsky.social, but also because the first article is titled "Squeeveillance" and deals with #surveillance and cuteness.

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2024 in review.

SSN and Surveillance & Society have had a great year! This was the 22nd Volume of S&S, and we also ran our 10th international conference.

Let's start with Surveillance & Society. Under @torinmonahan.bsky.social's brilliant stewardship, we published 4 issues of the journal...

TECHNOLOGY An AI that sees what you see Microsoft wants an AI companion to follow you around the web. This is only the beginning.

To me, though, the ambition here feels somewhat limitless. What if an AI assistant could see your whole world, know what was what, and help you navigate it? That’s the big idea behind Copilot Vision. Letting an AI watch you browse the web is just a step toward putting an AI companion on your shoulder everywhere you go. In a recent interview, Suleyman explained why collaborating with AI is the future of computing. This is frankly something I’ve heard tech companies pitch for years. But the way things are heading, I’m finally starting to buy it.

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration. www.vox.com/technology/3...

So glad to be part of this Dialogue on the surveillance implications of synthetic data/media in the new issue of Surveillance & Society 💫

Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social and @empo11on.bsky.social for facilitating this! Also big thank you to all authors who engage in the dialogue (see below) 🌞

A fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society is out now, the last one of 2024. This open issue offers six original articles, a special Dialogue Section on the surveillance dimensions of “Synthetic Data,” and two book reviews. #surveillance #data #academicsky

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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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Surveillance and Society dialogue on synthetic data and surveillance

I thoroughly enjoyed co-editing this new 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 & 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 dialogue on #synthetic #data and #surveillance. Great papers on topics such as data governance, theorizing synthetic surveillance, and media ethics.

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Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social for the opp!

The new Dialogue on Synthetic Data/Media and Surveillance in Surveillance & Society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social includes 5 stellar pieces from @susser.bsky.social & Jeremy Seeman, Louis Ravn, Renée Ridgway & Nicolas Malevé, Tanja Wiehn, and Andrew Fitzgerald. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

In "Synthetic Data, Synthetic Media, and Surveillance," @empo11on.bsky.social and I address the lack of attention to the surveillance implications of synthetic data and synthetic media in surveillance literature. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... @survstudiesnet.bsky.social

New article: "Abstracting Injustice" in which we explore how the neorepublican concepts of domination and antipower can contribute to surveillance studies & technology development and deployment within the criminal justice system ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... @survstudiesnet.bsky.social

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...

SAFE - Supporting 
At-risk researchers 
with Fellowships in Europe As a pilot fellowship scheme, the SAFE project offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institutio...

Support for at-risk researchers: 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institution in the EU.

🤣 sounds like a solid set of greatest hits!

What would happen if OpenAI/ChatGPT happened to be a defendant in one of the cases before the court... would the court use ChatGPT to draft the legal rulings? (only one of many Q's I have about this.)