SSC Seminar Series: sava saheli singh (Postdoctoral Fellow, Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University)

Love in the Time of Surveillance Capitalism

Wednesday, October 17 2018, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Mackintosh Corry Hall D411 

Abstract:

This presentation will discuss how our intimate personal interactions and expressions of emotion online are being used by platforms in the service of surveillance capitalism.

About the speaker:

sava saheli singh is a postdoctoral fellow with the Surveillance Studies Centre, currently working on a knowledge translation project for the Big Data Surveillance project. her research interests include the role of social media in higher education -- especially in how it affords surveillance, educational surveillance more broadly, and critically examining the effect of technology on society.

Everyone welcome!