ICA Fukuoka Closing Plenary: Surveillance, Power, and Communication

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Is digital communication becoming ungovernable? Perspectives on governance issues differ and actions following from these differences have major consequences for the future of mediated life. The first part of the lecture will compare and contrast disciplinary assumptions about the way people engage within an algorithmic culture or ‘big data’ ecology. The second part will examine perspectives on surveillance and privacy protection, giving particular attention to the way power is presumed to operate and to whether this is consistent with a notion of ethical governance.

Sub Unit

• Sponsored Sessions

Chair

• Peng Hwa Hwa Ang, Nanyang Technological U

Participant

• Robin Elizabeth Mansell, London School of Economics