New F20 Graduate Seminar

[J Whitson]

Hi all,

Apologies for the advertisement. This is a new course and I'm keen. Could
you please forward this to any of your incoming and current grads that
might be interested?

Prof. Ian Goldberg, (Computer Science) and I (Sociology and Legal Studies)
are offering a new interdisciplinary graduate seminar in the F20 term. It
will be synchronous, on Mondays and Wednesdays, 10-11:50 am.  We welcome
grads from other departments.

Graduate Seminar in Surveillance and Privacy

CS 858 / SOC 701

Contact-tracing apps and COVID-19. Mass social media surveillance and
censorship in China. Facial recognition and #BLM protest movements. Voter
manipulation and Facebook. These contemporary events are deeply tied to
issues of privacy and the social good. Understanding these events and--more
importantly--responding to them requires both technological capabilities
and critical analysis skills.

This interfaculty graduate seminar explores how surveillance technologies
contribute to social inequality, both in Canada and globally. It examines
current research into technologies that help users maintain their privacy,
both online and in the physical world. Seminar readings, discussions, and
projects demonstrate how successful interventions into privacy violations,
censorship, and digital discrimination are interdisciplinary, and rely on
the intersection of technology, policy, law, and critical theory.

For more information, see https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/courses/survpriv/

Offered by the Cheriton School of Computer Science and Department of
Sociology and Legal Studies.

*If you’re a graduate student interested in taking the course and are
outside of CS and SOC, please contact Dr. Jennifer Whitson: *
*jwhitson at uwaterloo.ca* <jwhitson at uwaterloo.ca> *. We welcome
interdisciplinary scholarship.*

Best,
Jen

*Jennifer R. Whitson PhD *| Associate Professor | Department of Sociology
and Legal Studies | Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business
(cross-appointment) | University of Waterloo | website
<https://jenniferwhitson.com/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/jen_whitson>
| indie interfaces <https://www.indieinterfaces.com/>| she / her, but they
/ their is also fine | Waterloo campus office: PAS 2025 | Stratford office:
DMS 3008
*The University of Waterloo (including the Waterloo, Kitchener, and
Cambridge campuses) is situated on the Haldimand Tract, land that was
promised to the Haudenosaunee of the Six Nations of the Grand River, and is
within the territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee
peoples. Stratford Campus is on the traditional territory of the
Anishnabek, Haudenosaunee and Attawandaron peoples. *
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