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The Digital Civil Society Speaker Series is open anyone who wishes to engage with critical insights on the intersections & implications of digital dependencies with democratic norms & civil society values & actors. It will be held at the Studio in McClatchy Hall, Building 120, on Stanford's campus. Register to join us in person.
Light refreshments & snacks will be served. Please arrive 5 minutes early to avoid disrupting the guest speaker.
Location:
McClatchy Hall, Studio
Stanford University
450 Jane Stanford Way, Bldg. 120, Stanford, CA 94305
We will be joined by Dr. Chris Gilliard, who will discuss "Luxury Surveillance"
The purpose of this talk is to explore the concept of luxury surveillance, a form of surveillance that people pay for & whose tracking, monitoring, & quantification features are understood by the user as benefits they are likely to celebrate. From a technical standpoint, there is little difference between an ankle monitor & wearables such as Fitbits, Apple Watches, & Oura rings. Ankle monitors, however, are imposed upon people on parole, probation, or awaiting an immigration hearing. On the other end of the spectrum, consumers of luxury surveillance see themselves as powerful & sovereign, & perhaps even immune from unwelcome monitoring & control. They see self-quantification & tracking not as disciplinary or coercive, but as a kind of care or empowerment. Whether mandated or voluntarily adopted, these technologies can be understood as mechanisms of control, but in different ways. The imposed control of the incarcerated becomes the algorithmically aided self-control of the individual. Post-Dobbs & in the midst of an AI gold rush, it's meaningful to consider the implications for us all becoming completely legible to surveillance devices.
Dr. Chris Gilliard is a writer, professor, & speaker. His scholarship concentrates on digital privacy, surveillance, & the intersections of race, class, & technology. He is an advocate for critical & equity-focused approaches to tech in education. His writings have been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Ed, & Vice Magazine. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center, a member of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Scholars Council, & a member of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project community advisory board. Gilliard is a member of the inaugural (2022 - 2024) cohort of the Just Tech Fellowship.
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