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Re:visiting everyday surveillance in a digital age 
Convenors:
Coppélie Cocq (Umeå University)
Stefan Gelfgren (Umeå university)
Lars Samuelsson (Umeå University)
Jesper Enbom (Umeå University)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
DIGITAL LIVES
:
Room K-206
Sessions:
Thursday 16 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

This panel addresses the cultural, mundane, and everyday-life aspects of online surveillance as "surveillance culture" (Lyon 2018) in the context of the increased digitalization of our Nordic societies. Our focus lies on the consequences of these cultural and societal transformations for citizens.

Long Abstract:

Today, personal data is gathered through the welfare state and healthcare providers; and voluntarily shared by people through their use of smartphones, wearables, social media, streaming services, games, and more. Data is gathered, coordinated, and analysed to gain insights into our everyday lives by various state intelligence, authorities and civil businesses. Our data is key for an anticipated digital transformation of society. Thus, members of contemporary digitalized societies live in what David Lyon refers to as a culture of surveillance (2018). This panel invites contributions focusing on the cultural, mundane, and everyday-life aspects of such "participation and engagement of surveilled and surveilling subjects". (Lyon 2018: 6).

Whereas issues of surveillance, digitalization and data use have been widely studied in the social sciences, we identify a need for ethnologists, folklorists and scholars in adjacent fields to scrutinize these issues in their cultural contexts, and examine their consequences from the perspectives of citizens. Such perspectives are key in order to revise and nuance the often either utopian or dystopian narratives of the benefits of data collection and digitalization that imbue policies and media discourses.

Issues to be addressed can for instance include practices of acceptance, adaptation and/or resistance to online surveillance; the legitimization of the collection and use of personal data, from the perspective of private citizens; when information sharing on social media platforms becomes uncomfortable and risky; and the limitations that surveillance culture impose in terms of democratisation.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 16 June, 2022, -
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