NEW: Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities Dear Friends and Comrades, Today we’re publishing the first piece from our forthcoming issue on campus activism and repression since October 7, 2023. In “Censorship and Surveillance at US Universitie...

In “Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities,” Torin Monahan details the expansive apparatus used by university administrations, often following federal or state political pressures, to police pro-Palestine and progressive speech on campuses across the country.

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Thank you—I really appreciate that.

Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities The night before the start of the Fall 2025 semester, facilities workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill quietly boarded up a pro-Palestine mural. The mural, created by art…

NEW: "Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities"

Torin Monahan details how university administrations bowed to political pressure to surveil and censor students and faculty who have stood up for Palestinian liberation since October 7, 2023.

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: The journal Surveillance & Society is seeking nominations for new Associate Editors. Please share with others and consider applying! #surveillance #openaccess

Deadline: April 30, 2026

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I’m organizing a panel on "Interrogating State Surveillance in Authoritarian Times” at the next 4S [@4sweb.bsky.social] conference in Toronto. Please consider submitting an abstract!
#surveillance #authoritarianism

Submission deadline: April 30, 2026
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Total surveillance as a civilizational stage? Science-fiction, religion and the tech oligarchy Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

I have another new piece just out, considering the intersection of #surveillance and #ScienceFiction, this time in the context of the the ideologies of tech oligarchs, in Science as Culture, edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social and Les Levidow...

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Raphael Schlembach's book Spycops: Secrets and Disclosure in the Undercover Policing Inquiry is also terrific. I highly recommend it.

4S 2026 Conference Logo

I’m organizing a panel on "Interrogating State Surveillance in Authoritarian Times” at the next 4S [@4sweb.bsky.social] conference in Toronto. Please consider submitting an abstract!
#surveillance #authoritarianism

Submission deadline: April 30, 2026
Website: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

It's publication day for the "Surveillance and Literature" special issue I edited for Surveillance & Society!

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A 🧵 of few thoughts about the project (after spending a LOT of time with it this past year):

Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct When I proposed rejecting papers with hallucinated references, the support was overwhelming. But the critical voices revealed five argument patterns: from AI hype through TINA rhetoric to nihilism.

"Anyone who submits hallucinated references should be sanctioned. Desk reject and one-year ban." dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and...

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out.

Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky

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12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role: undertake a data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland + interviews with key stakeholders. Closing date 31 March 2026. Details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Deputized by Design: Ambient Surveillance and Neoliberal Rescue in ‘Dangerous Animals’ In this post, Deena Varner reviews Dangerous Animals (2025), Directed by Sean Byrne. US: IFC Films. Available to stream on Shudder.

Excellent new film review by @deena-varner.bsky.social on Surveillance & Society’s blog, Blink.
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Join us for three amazing events on queer crip pleasure, art, and activism with @drsamischalk.bsky.social, our speaker for the prestigious Mandel Lecture in the Humanities.

The problem with doorbell cams: Nancy Guthrie case and Ring Super Bowl ad reawaken surveillance fears Many people bought the devices thinking they would do little more than protect their delivery packages

Of course law enforcement can access Ring footage. Surveillance scholars have been documenting this for years.

Safari Surveillance: A Reflection on Seeing and Being Seen in Kruger National Park In this post, Julia Rootenberg reflects on a recent trip to Kruger National Park and the surveillant landscape.

"Safari Surveillance: A Reflection on Seeing and Being Seen in Kruger National Park" by Julia Rootenberg.

Love to see this new post in the Surveillance & Society blog, _blink. #surveillance #wildlife #Kruger

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Image of book cover: Watching Women by Stephanie Brown

Steph Brown [@stephjayb.bsky.social] has just won the 2025 Surveillance Studies Book Prize for Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905–1924. This is an incredible book that everyone should read. Congrats, Steph!!

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Photo of book: The Church Committee Report

Just received this incisive new book about government #surveillance abuses and crimes during the 1970s. Totally prescient for today’s world. @mguariglia.bsky.social iglia.bsky.social & @brianhochman.bsky.social ochman.bsky.social have made a major contribution here!

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In case you missed it over the holidays, Surveillance & Society published a great new issue. There’s a section on “Global Futures of Digital Confinement,” a dialogue on 25 years after the “surveillant assemblage,” and much more! #surveillance #openaccess
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Amid ICE raids, some Home Depot investors want to know how law enforcement uses its surveillance data Home Depot locations have become hotbeds for ICE arrests.

A group of Home Depot (HD.N) investors is asking the company to review its partnership with surveillance firm Flock Safety and state how its data is used and shared with law enforcement, following reports by an independent media outlet that the vendor's data has…
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I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

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Iran’s Case Should Put an End to Illusions About Digital Sovereignty Iran’s case shows why digital sovereignty won’t solve internet shutdowns or unchecked private dominance over digital infrastructure, writes Azadeh Akbari.

Iran’s Case Should Put an End to Illusions About Digital Sovereignty, by @azadehakbari.bsky.social for @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Important not just for #Iran, but to counter the growing tendency to see #nationalism as a solution to platform #capitalism.

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This looks great! Thanks for sharing and for the nice feedback on my work too.

Wrote about some of the visuals in suffrage newspapers (1910-1914) as surveillance art the aimed at conveying state brutality for Modernism/modernity (@mmodernity.bsky.social). It came out on Print+ over the holiday! 1/

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These new plans are an important reminder that ICE is still getting its infrastructure in place, and they are relying on being able to co-opt state and local law enforcement officers to carry out their agenda.

Fighting the spread of 287(g) agreements is critically important.

"The epistemological exchange that allows AI-generated imagery [...] to operate as a proxy artifact of photographic history endows it with an artificial relationship between truth and representation that is subtly leveraged in disinformation campaigns."

📝 Our Fall 2025 issue of the SKAT Newsletter is out!

See inside for information about SKAT sessions at #ASA2026, a call for award nominations, Q&As with book authors, and more.

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All these edtech and AIed testbeds don't follow the evidence-based "what works" policy model that's dominated education for years. They're *making* AI work in real-world school settings to generate insights for policy and tech. Schools are AI testing labs now.