This paper aims to provide an overview of surveillance theories and concepts that can help
to understand and debate surveillance in its many forms. As scholars from an increasingly …

The collection and circulation of data is now a central element of increasingly more sectors
of contemporary capitalism. This article analyses data as a form of capital that is distinct …

The aim of this article is to propose a theoretical framework for studying digital resignation,
the condition produced when people desire to control the information digital entities have …

A new form of digital economic circulation has emerged, wherein ideas, knowledge, labour
and use rights for otherwise idle assets move between geographically distributed but …

This report re-evaluates the literature about surveillance/monitoring in the standard
workplace, in home working during the COVID 19 pandemic and in respect of digital …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is presented as a solution to the greatest challenges of our time,
from global pandemics and chronic diseases to cybersecurity threats and the climate crisis …

Knitting together contemporary technologies of datafication to reveal a broader, underlying
shift in what counts as knowledge, Technologies of Speculation reframes today's major …

Building on cornerstone traditions in historical sociology, as well as work in environmental
sociology and political-economic sociology, we theorize and investigate with moderation …

To say that Black lives matter 1 has become both a technological and cultural phenomenon
in the United States is an understatement. The hashtag and those discursively linked to it …

Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison project was based on three central assumptions: the
omnipresence of the “watcher”; the universal visibility of objects of surveillance; and the …