This event will showcase a short, near future, fiction film focused on the issues around the use of AI and algorithmic decision making in the context of educational technology. This film is the fourth in the award-winning Screening Surveillance series, a public education and knowledge translation project that calls attention to the potential human consequences of big data surveillance. sava saheli singh co-produced the first three films as a postdoctoral fellow with the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston.
Panellists:
sava saheli singh is a Research Fellow, Surveillance, Society and Technology at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society. She received her PhD from New York University’s Educational Communication and Technology program. Her dissertation, titled “Academic Twitter: Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Scholarship”, addresses how 21st-century academics negotiate their professional identities as a complex form of emotional, intellectual, and academic labor and the ways in which this helps and hinders their academic and personal lives. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her current research interests include educational surveillance; digital labour and surveillance capitalism; restorative justice and abolition; speculative fiction; and critically examining the effects of technology and techno-utopianism on society.
Professor Aphra Kerr is based in the Department of Sociology in MU, co-convenes the university’s Technology and Society interdisciplinary research network, and is a member of the Maynooth Social Sciences Research Institute and the Assisted Living and Learning Institutes, all at Maynooth University. Her research focuses on the design, governance and impact of media and technology in everyday life. Media technologies, and technologies as media, pervade every aspect of contemporary life in advanced societies, and play an increasingly important role in governing social and individual behaviour. It is critically important that we question the values that inform technological innovations and their governance and that social scientists understand, educate and inform the design and use of next generation technologies.
Professor Rob Kitchin is based in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth University, for which he was director between 2002 and 2013. He was a principal investigator on the Programmable City project (funded by the European Research Council, 2013-18), the Building City Dashboards project (funded by Science Foundation Ireland, 2016-21), the Digital Repository of Ireland (2009-2017) and the All-Island Research Observatory (2005-2017). He has published widely across the social sciences, including 32 authored/edited books and over 200 articles and book chapters, and has delivered over 270 invited talks at conferences and universities. He has been the managing editor of the international journals, Dialogues in Human Geography (2011-20) and Social and Cultural Geography (2000-09) and an editor of Progress in Human Geography (2010-14). He was the editor-in-chief of the 12 volume, International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. He has successfully written or been a principal investigator on forty grants, totalling c.€36m, including funding from PRTLI 2, 4, 5, IRC, ERC, SFI, ESRC, NSF, Interreg and RIA.
Moderator:
Ciara Bracken-Roche is an Assistant Professor of Criminology in the Department of Law at Maynooth University, and is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa for 2020. Dr. Bracken-Roche sits on the Inter/national FOI Research Council of the Centre for Access to Information and Justice at the University of Winnipeg. She is also a member of the advisory board for a new publication called The Study Up, "a peer-reviewed publication featuring critical, investigative research using freedom of information (FOI) and access to information (ATI) disclosures as data." She is also a long standing member of the Surveillance Studies Network, the International Studies Association, and WIIS-Canada. Ciara's current project explores the adoption and use of drone technologies in Canada and Ireland with a specific focus on their application by policing and public safety agencies. The project is creating new knowledge about the relationship between police use of these technologies/techniques of governance and existing legal, social and technological norms.
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