[GNU/consensus] Surveillance and Citizenship

[Michael Rogers]

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Hi all,

I'm involved with a research project at Cardiff University looking at
the impact of the Snowden leaks on state-media-citizen relations. The
project will be hosting a conference in June.

One of the goals of the conference is to foster collaboration between
journalists, activists, civil society, and technologists working on
anti-surveillance tools. The conference will include hackathons and
practical workshops. I see this as a good opportunity to bring
together the group of developers that met at Unlike Us, the Berlin
Biennale and YBTI, and to forge some links with potential users of our
tools.

If you're interested in giving a talk or organising a workshop,
hackathon, usability test, etc, then please submit an abstract by
Sunday (see the CFP below for details). You're also welcome to attend
without giving a talk or hosting a session.

Hope to see you there! (Sorry it's not Valencia.)

Cheers,
Michael

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Surveillance and Citizenship
State-Media-Citizen Relations After the Snowden Leaks

Conference and Workshop in collaboration with "Unlike Us"
18-19 June 2015
Cardiff University, UK

Speakers include:
Ben Wizner (ACLU, Edward Snowden’s lawyer)
Caspar Bowden (former Chief Privacy Adviser for Microsoft)
Mark Andrejevic (Ponoma College, US)
Kirstie Ball (Open University, UK)
Seda Gürses (New York University, US)
Tony Bunyan (Statewatch)

The conference will bring together leading UK and international
scholars, and representatives of organisations such as Privacy
International, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Tactical Tech, Open
Rights Group, and the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

Submission deadline: *15 February 2015*

Please submit a 300-500 word abstract to address@hidden

We invite submissions of academic paper proposals, as well as
proposals for workshops, hackathons and project presentations. The
conference will combine academic analysis and practical workshops.

Two years after the Snowden revelations started, the conference
"Surveillance and Citizenship" will review their impacts and
consequences for state policy, technological development, internet
uses and the media. It will address the following questions:

• What is the policy environment for surveillance and the work of
intelligence agencies? Which policy reform proposals have emerged?

• Which technical platforms have been particularly vulnerable; what
tools exist for secure communication; and what standards are required
for privacy protection?

• What is the level of public reaction? How do people perceive digital
surveillance?

• What are the implications of surveillance for journalism, activism
and social movements?

• Have the media reported accurately on the leaks? Which challenges
have emerged for journalists?

• What is the nature of citizenship in the 'Snowden Era'?

Further conference information:
http://www.dcssproject.net/conference/

Contact: address@hidden

Conference organizing committee:
Arne Hintz (Cardiff University)
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Cardiff University)
Lina Dencik (Cardiff University)
Ian Brown (Oxford University)
Michael Rogers (Briar Project, Technical University of Delft)
Jonathan Cable (Cardiff University)
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