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April 8, 2019

Dr Adam Molnar will be hosting a seminar at the Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen’s University, Canada.

INTIMATE SURVEILLANCE, INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL: RESEARCHING STALKERWARE AS AN APPARATUS OF SOCIO-TECHNICAL CONTROL

Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 12:30 – 2:00 pm
, Mackintosh Corry Hall D411

Abstract:

Consumer spyware is a tool that facilitates covert tracking, interception, and remote access of an individual’s geo-locational information, communications (including emails, texts, social media activities, and keystroke logging) or a device’s microphone and cameras, including stored images or videos. Spyware is available to mainstream consumer audiences to facilitate ‘lateral’ surveillance in intimate partnerships, parent-child relationships, and workplaces. Drawing on a project that weaves together social, technical, and legal methods of inquiry, this seminar provides insight into how spyware manifests as a form of socio-technical authoritarian control. This apparatus of control includes the commodification of mobile device surveillance in everyday life, discrete ways that socio-technical design re-inscribes relations of domination, and a wider socio-legal apparatus that governs the use of powerful mobile device surveillance technologies. Together, these characteristics raise important questions for understanding how gendered forms of technology-facilitated violence are conditioned through a broad socio-technical apparatus of control. Click here for more information. 



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