Dr. sava saheli singh on Screening Surveillance

Virtual/ Online Event with Professional Live Captions in English)

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This event will include a discussion with Dr. sava saheli singh and a film screening.

About the speaker:

Dr. sava saheli singh is an Assistant Professor at York University. She was previously a Research Fellow, Surveillance, Society and Technology at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society and was previously the eQuality-Scotiabank Postdoctoral Fellow in AI and Surveillance. sava saheli singh received her PhD from New York University’s Educational Communication and Technology program. Her dissertation, titled “Academic Twitter: Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Scholarship”, addresses how 21st-century academics negotiate their professional identities as a complex form of emotional, intellectual, and academic labor and the ways in which this helps and hinders their academic and personal lives. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her current research interests include educational surveillance; digital labour and surveillance capitalism; restorative justice and abolition; speculative fiction; and critically examining the effects of technology and techno-utopianism on society.

About the films:

"The invasive surveillance apparatus we find embedded in almost all aspects of our technologically mediated lives collects and analyzes personal information which is then used by organizations to produce various outcomes that are often out of our control. Surveillance is not simply good or bad, helpful or harmful, but it is never neutral, and it is increasingly at the core of larger systems of control. Screening Surveillance is a short film series created by sava saheli singh that aims to raise awareness about how large organizations use data and how these practices affect life chances and choices. We need to consider these implications, and critically examine the logics and practices within big data systems that underpin, enable, and accelerate surveillance." 

This event is part of the 5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.

Our series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), the DIGS Lab, Milieux, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, MILA, Dean of Arts Grant, ReQEF, and more (see our website!)

There is no fee required to attend this event. We will provide professional captions in english.

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