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Mehdi Ghassemi

@mehdighassemi

Head of Research & Asst. Professor in media and communication. Surveillance, AI and sociotechnical imaginaries.

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A reminder that many schemes for utopian independent #zones are essentially white supremacist plans for re-colonization or double colonization. This one is just more overt in its violence and stupidity. Most hide behind ideas like "prosperity", "entrepreneurialism" and "sustainability."

21.11.2025 15:34 👍 32 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
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Can't wait to welcome surveillance scholars in Lille for #SSN2026! It will be held for the first time in 🇫🇷, hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social with @istc.bsky.social as partner.

🌍 Planetary Surveillance
📍 Lille | 🗓️ 9–12 June 2026
📝 CfP deadline: Jan 10
🔗 lnkd.in/dacsjrgB

Submit and join us!

01.11.2025 14:25 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Looking forward to welcoming many of you to Lille for #SSN2026!

@istc.bsky.social

14.05.2025 18:30 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Séminaire de recherche - "surveillance & pouvoir"
La séance 5 du séminaire annuel du GdT Surveillance & Pouvoir du CIS-CNRS/ISTC aura lieu le 15 mai à 18h (en ligne).

Inscription : bit.ly/4geK34b

07.05.2025 12:20 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In which another privileged white person wonders about whether we should grant rights to inanimate capitalist technologies when we haven't even managed to get #humanrights to everyone equally, let alone properly consider the rights of other living beings... #animalrights #ecosystemrights

24.04.2025 18:45 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Huge thanks to Professor David Murakami Wood @ubisurv.net for an inspiring week at @istc.bsky.social and ETHICS. Your talks on smart cities, surveillance, and algorithmic governance sparked vital conversations. Grateful for your generosity, insight, and sharp readings of surveillance and security.

22.04.2025 14:37 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

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29.03.2025 14:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rejoignez-nous pour étudier les enjeux de l’IA et de la surveillance au sein de notre équipe de recherche.

@istc.bsky.social
#surveillance #IA #postdoc #communication

05.03.2025 10:01 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Journée d'études CEThicS - 9 avril 2025 Inauguré le 27 novembre 2023, CEThicS est un centre de recherche interdisciplinaire affilié au Surveillance Studies Network et au Centre Internet et Societé. CEThicS prend acte de la croissance expone...

Excited for the upcoming one-day symposium on French Surveillance Studies, featuring top scholars in the field — and opened by a keynote from none other than David Murakami Wood @ubisurv.net

If you’re in or around Lille on April 9th, register here: shorturl.at/mlmIj
@survstudiesnet.bsky.social

25.03.2025 20:42 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

@survstudiesnet.bsky.social

25.03.2025 20:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, Caroline. This is what women have to deal with over there.

21.03.2025 13:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up | Owen Jones No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

19.03.2025 12:16 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
David Murakami Wood | Research and innovation

Excited for our Lille workshop with David Murakami Wood from April 7 to 11! We'll be discussing Olympic security, (post)smart cities, surveillance theory, art & culture, and m research projects. Looking forward to insightful conversations!

www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

@ubisurv.net

17.03.2025 20:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Vol. 23 No. 1 (2025): Open Issue | Surveillance & Society

The first issue of Surveillance & Society of 2025 is out, including 6 original articles, a dialogue section on “Authoritarian Surveillance,” an editorial on Trump’s second presidency & 4 book reviews. #surveillance #authoritarianism #data #privacy

ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

16.03.2025 19:40 👍 19 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 2
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid scene

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid scene

We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with a special Dialogue section on the #authoritarian #surveillance. The journal is always, fully #openaccess.

Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

16.03.2025 19:49 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 3
Towards a Critical Political Economy of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism | Surveillance & Society

📣 Just out in Surveillance & Society's special issue on authoritarian surveillance with @ubisurv.net, " Towards a Critical Political Economy of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism."

16.03.2025 21:08 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0

Such a great conference. Well done @clequesne.bsky.social

15.03.2025 15:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Off to Nice to attend a great looking two-day symposium on FRT & Law, alongside world class scholars. I will give a talk about the pervasive interplay between private and public surveillance in mega-projects like NEOM, which function as a testing ground for biometric surveillance.

12.03.2025 11:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rejoignez-nous pour étudier les enjeux de l’IA et de la surveillance au sein de notre équipe de recherche.

@istc.bsky.social
#surveillance #IA #postdoc #communication

05.03.2025 10:01 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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NEOM : l’IA au secours d’un régime ? NEOM : l’IA au secours d’un régime ?

Comment concilier une volonté affichée de progrès et d’ouverture avec des mécanismes de surveillance et de contrôle renforcés ? Peut-on vraiment innover sans démocratiser ? Quels compromis les États font-ils entre hypermodernité et autoritarisme ?

🔗 Article complet ici : la-rem.eu/2025/02/neom...

26.02.2025 10:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2025 Surveillance & Power Seminar | February 13 at 6 PM (online)

📢 “A Taxonomy of Resistance Strategies Against Surveillance: From Humor to Despair” by Raziel Yauri Miranda, Research Fellow – Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Hosted at @istc.bsky.social
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3MxeRzE

05.02.2025 21:29 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Johann Chapoutot.
Historien spécialiste du nazisme.
Punto e basta

22.01.2025 22:57 👍 800 🔁 465 💬 14 📌 23
David Lynch looking at the camera and saying one day the sadness will end. Then he looks outside and squints up at the sun: but I don't think today is the day

David Lynch looking at the camera and saying one day the sadness will end. Then he looks outside and squints up at the sun: but I don't think today is the day

16.01.2025 18:50 👍 1095 🔁 325 💬 2 📌 12
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Très heureux de lancer notre séminaire annuel du GdT "surveillance et pouvoir" du Centre Internet et Société du CNRS.

Notre première séance, "#Surveillance, sanctions et #souveraineté", est proposée par Ksenia ERMOSHINA
Date et heure: le 14 janvier à 18h (en ligne)
Inscription : bit.ly/47cmsNL

06.01.2025 16:03 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Thrilled to announce the publication of Big Data et Influence, a collective volume I co-edited with Camila Pérez Lagos and Rania Aoun.

This book brings critical perspectives from the humanities and social sciences to examine the societal impact of Big Data.

Available now via Peter Lang! 📚

03.01.2025 20:09 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Another fantastic year with the SSN team ❤️

17.12.2024 18:55 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes
Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes YouTube video by 60 Minutes

I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.

04.12.2024 22:03 👍 4854 🔁 2321 💬 75 📌 78
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False Promise of Biometrics Three-country investigation shows digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making fortunes for tech vendors

The False Promise of Biometrics in Africa: Digital IDs in Africa are failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making *fortunes* for tech vendors. #DigitalRights @lhreports.bsky.social
www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

09.12.2024 12:52 👍 21 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2
Background face made of particles. (Credit: Designed by Freepik.)

Background face made of particles. (Credit: Designed by Freepik.)

We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with a special Dialogue section on the #surveillance dimensions of #SyntheticData. The journal is always, fully #openaccess.

Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

06.12.2024 23:24 👍 32 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
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Le regard panoptique et l’art surveillance : esthétique et politiqu... Introduction Nous sommes à une époque où les citoyens sont de plus en plus surveillés grâce à l'utilisation généralisée de caméras de vidéosurveillance, de drones, de leurs empreintes numériques la...

My latest article on surveillance art [in French] coauthored with Camila Pérez Lagos.

26.11.2024 22:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0