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/> =========================== Brad Seawell, Program Coordinator MIT Communications Forum 14N-430 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 voice 617-253-3521 fax 617-253-6105
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