"Surveillance Capitalism Meets the Pandemic: Challenges to the Social Contract", with David Lyon

In this seminar Professor David Lyon (Principal Investigator of the Big Data Surveillance Project, Former Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre and Queen's Research Chair in Surveillance Studies, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Law, Queen’s University, Canada) explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for surveillance. 

The talk and following Q&A cover themes including vaccine passports, surveillance and the common good, the future of surveillance and global inequalities in the impact of surveillance.

A video version of the seminar is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U87VVMwHrkM

The seminar took place over Zoom on 12 October 2021, and was hosted by Christopher Watkin (Monash University), as part of the Australian Research Council funded Future Fellowship project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism". This seminar is an initiative of the Social Contract Research Network. To find out more about the SCRN, and to subscribe to email updates, please visit https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/social-contract-research-network   

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