Paper short abstract:

Screening Surveillance is a series of short near future fiction films created and co-produced by sava saheli singh that aims to raise awareness about how large organizations use data for surveillance and how these practices affect life chances and choices.

Paper long abstract:

Screening Surveillance (https://www.screeningsurveillance.com/) is a short near future fiction film series co-produced and created by sava saheli singh that aims to raise awareness about how large organizations use data for surveillance, and how these practices affect life chances and choices.

Speculative surveillance is an effective way to highlight the potential harms of invisible surveillance systems and these short films speculate surveillance futures and the effects of deeply embedded and connected surveillant systems on our everyday lives. The narratives were informed by ethnographic and other research that highlight the effects of surveillance on everyday life. The films were produced with support from and in collaboration with the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University, and the eQuality Project and the AI+Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa. Intended as public education resources to spark discussion and extend understandings of surveillance, trust, and privacy in the digital age, each film highlights a different aspect of surveillance and the tensions that manifest when the human is interpreted by the machine.

#tresdancing speculates the effects of escalating surveillance and control through educational technology.

Blaxites imagines what would happen if our access to much needed healthcare is dictated by our healthcare provider's surveillance of our social media activities.

A Model Employee tackles the issues of workplace surveillance through wearable devices.

Frames imagines an all-knowing smart city as it fails to understand the actions of one of its citizen.