Transparent Lives/Vivre à nu book launch!

Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada / Vivre à nu: La surveillance au Canada is being launched by The New Transparency Project, a SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative, and published by Athabasca University Press on Thursday, May 8, 2014.

 

 

The book launch will be held from 5:00 - 7:00pm at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Social Sciences Building, Room 4007, 120 University Private, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5

Order of events:

Introduction: David Lyon, FRSC, Principal Investigator, The New Transparency Project; Director, Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen’s University

Website Demonstration: Valerie Steeves, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa; and Adam Molnar, Postdoctoral Fellow, The New Transparency Project

Video Presentation: ‘Transparent Lives/Vivre à nu’ created by Josh Lyon, Principal at AKAFLK

Commentary: Charmaine Borg, MP (Terrebonne-Blainville); Ian Kerr, Faculty of Law, Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology, University of Ottawa; Elizabeth May, MP (Saanich-Gulf Islands), Leader of the Green Party of Canada

Cocktail reception and book signing: 6:00 - 7:00pm.

Books are available for free PDF download or for purchase from the Athabasca University Press Website.