Bryce Newell
@bcnewell.bsky.social
Petrone Fellow and Associate Professor, University of Oregon. Author of "Police Visibility": https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382909/police-visibility | Dialogue Editor, Surveillance & Society | Co-Director, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)
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The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award. The deadline for receipt of books from the publisher is October 15th, 2025.
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July 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award. The deadline for receipt of books from the publisher is October 15th, 2025.
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The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for its 2026 Arts Prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations is August 15th, 2025.
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July 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for its 2026 Arts Prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations is August 15th, 2025.
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🎉 We are excited to announce the 2024 winners of our #Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher prize for publications in our journal, Surveillance & Society 🎉
Check out their fantastic papers here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Congratulations to the winners!!
Check out their fantastic papers here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Congratulations to the winners!!
August 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🎉 We are excited to announce the 2024 winners of our #Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher prize for publications in our journal, Surveillance & Society 🎉
Check out their fantastic papers here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Congratulations to the winners!!
Check out their fantastic papers here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Congratulations to the winners!!
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Surveillance & Society has published a great new issue—w/ articles on data leaks, ceasefire monitoring, campus #protests, & much more! The journal is always fully #openaccess.
Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
September 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Surveillance & Society has published a great new issue—w/ articles on data leaks, ceasefire monitoring, campus #protests, & much more! The journal is always fully #openaccess.
Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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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
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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2025): Open Issue
| Surveillance & Society
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March 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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
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An important message from the ABA:
"We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party ... change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less."
"We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party ... change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less."
The ABA supports the rule of law
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...
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February 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
An important message from the ABA:
"We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party ... change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less."
"We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party ... change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less."
Is the US Republican Party on its way to becoming a totalitarian party? Asking for a friend...
8 U.S.C. § 1182(3)(D): "Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with . . . any . . . totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible."
8 U.S.C. § 1182(3)(D): "Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with . . . any . . . totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible."
February 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Is the US Republican Party on its way to becoming a totalitarian party? Asking for a friend...
8 U.S.C. § 1182(3)(D): "Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with . . . any . . . totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible."
8 U.S.C. § 1182(3)(D): "Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with . . . any . . . totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible."
Looking for legal cases/scholarship that examines freedom of expression rights of immigrants in the EU--specifically, are there legal decisions by the CJEU/ECtHR that discuss whether the exceptions to Article 10 (ECHR)/Article 11 (Charter) apply to limit the free expression rights of immigrants?
February 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Looking for legal cases/scholarship that examines freedom of expression rights of immigrants in the EU--specifically, are there legal decisions by the CJEU/ECtHR that discuss whether the exceptions to Article 10 (ECHR)/Article 11 (Charter) apply to limit the free expression rights of immigrants?
Another of several worthwhile threads on the TikTik v. Garland (the TikTik ban case) decision today by the US Supreme Court:
Given that I considered TikTok's loss a foregone conclusion, this feels like... the best possible outcome? I think? 1/
January 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Another of several worthwhile threads on the TikTik v. Garland (the TikTik ban case) decision today by the US Supreme Court:
One of several worthwhile threads on the TikTik v. Garland (the TikTik ban case) decision today by the US Supreme Court:
SCOTUS upholds TikTok ban 9-0. Reading the decision as we speak. I'll include some thoughts on this thread. 🧵
H/T @alanrozenshtein.com
H/T @alanrozenshtein.com
Supreme Court upholds the TikTok law 9-0. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
January 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
One of several worthwhile threads on the TikTik v. Garland (the TikTik ban case) decision today by the US Supreme Court:
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If anything, Issue #4 was my favourite of 2024, not least because of the special dialogue section on #syntheticdata, edited by @bcnewell.bsky.social, but also because the first article is titled "Squeeveillance" and deals with #surveillance and cuteness.
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Vol. 22 No. 4 (2024): Open Issue
| Surveillance & Society
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December 17, 2024 at 4:02 PM
If anything, Issue #4 was my favourite of 2024, not least because of the special dialogue section on #syntheticdata, edited by @bcnewell.bsky.social, but also because the first article is titled "Squeeveillance" and deals with #surveillance and cuteness.
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2024 in review.
SSN and Surveillance & Society have had a great year! This was the 22nd Volume of S&S, and we also ran our 10th international conference.
Let's start with Surveillance & Society. Under @torinmonahan.bsky.social's brilliant stewardship, we published 4 issues of the journal...
SSN and Surveillance & Society have had a great year! This was the 22nd Volume of S&S, and we also ran our 10th international conference.
Let's start with Surveillance & Society. Under @torinmonahan.bsky.social's brilliant stewardship, we published 4 issues of the journal...
December 17, 2024 at 3:52 PM
2024 in review.
SSN and Surveillance & Society have had a great year! This was the 22nd Volume of S&S, and we also ran our 10th international conference.
Let's start with Surveillance & Society. Under @torinmonahan.bsky.social's brilliant stewardship, we published 4 issues of the journal...
SSN and Surveillance & Society have had a great year! This was the 22nd Volume of S&S, and we also ran our 10th international conference.
Let's start with Surveillance & Society. Under @torinmonahan.bsky.social's brilliant stewardship, we published 4 issues of the journal...
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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration. www.vox.com/technology/3...
December 11, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration. www.vox.com/technology/3...
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So glad to be part of this Dialogue on the surveillance implications of synthetic data/media in the new issue of Surveillance & Society 💫
Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social and @empo11on.bsky.social for facilitating this! Also big thank you to all authors who engage in the dialogue (see below) 🌞
Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social and @empo11on.bsky.social for facilitating this! Also big thank you to all authors who engage in the dialogue (see below) 🌞
The new Dialogue on Synthetic Data/Media and Surveillance in Surveillance & Society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social includes 5 stellar pieces from @susser.bsky.social & Jeremy Seeman, Louis Ravn, Renée Ridgway & Nicolas Malevé, Tanja Wiehn, and Andrew Fitzgerald. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Vol. 22 No. 4 (2024): Open Issue
| Surveillance & Society
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December 10, 2024 at 1:44 PM
So glad to be part of this Dialogue on the surveillance implications of synthetic data/media in the new issue of Surveillance & Society 💫
Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social and @empo11on.bsky.social for facilitating this! Also big thank you to all authors who engage in the dialogue (see below) 🌞
Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social and @empo11on.bsky.social for facilitating this! Also big thank you to all authors who engage in the dialogue (see below) 🌞
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A fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society is out now, the last one of 2024. This open issue offers six original articles, a special Dialogue Section on the surveillance dimensions of “Synthetic Data,” and two book reviews. #surveillance #data #academicsky
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Vol. 22 No. 4 (2024): Open Issue
| Surveillance & Society
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December 6, 2024 at 11:31 PM
A fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society is out now, the last one of 2024. This open issue offers six original articles, a special Dialogue Section on the surveillance dimensions of “Synthetic Data,” and two book reviews. #surveillance #data #academicsky
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SSN and Surveillance & Society are looking for self-nominations for a new Communications Editor to join our board, run SSN's website, blog and more... deadline: January 6th 2025. #surveillance #academicsky
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Seeking a Communications Editor
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December 9, 2024 at 7:22 PM
SSN and Surveillance & Society are looking for self-nominations for a new Communications Editor to join our board, run SSN's website, blog and more... deadline: January 6th 2025. #surveillance #academicsky
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I thoroughly enjoyed co-editing this new 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 & 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 dialogue on #synthetic #data and #surveillance. Great papers on topics such as data governance, theorizing synthetic surveillance, and media ethics.
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Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social for the opp!
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Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social for the opp!
December 7, 2024 at 2:56 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed co-editing this new 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 & 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 dialogue on #synthetic #data and #surveillance. Great papers on topics such as data governance, theorizing synthetic surveillance, and media ethics.
ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social for the opp!
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Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social for the opp!
In "Synthetic Data, Synthetic Media, and Surveillance," @empo11on.bsky.social and I address the lack of attention to the surveillance implications of synthetic data and synthetic media in surveillance literature. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... @survstudiesnet.bsky.social
Synthetic Data, Synthetic Media, and Surveillance
| Surveillance & Society
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December 9, 2024 at 8:24 PM
In "Synthetic Data, Synthetic Media, and Surveillance," @empo11on.bsky.social and I address the lack of attention to the surveillance implications of synthetic data and synthetic media in surveillance literature. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... @survstudiesnet.bsky.social
New article: "Abstracting Injustice" in which we explore how the neorepublican concepts of domination and antipower can contribute to surveillance studies & technology development and deployment within the criminal justice system ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... @survstudiesnet.bsky.social
December 9, 2024 at 8:05 PM
New article: "Abstracting Injustice" in which we explore how the neorepublican concepts of domination and antipower can contribute to surveillance studies & technology development and deployment within the criminal justice system ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... @survstudiesnet.bsky.social
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Surveillance & Society / SSN is looking for new Associate Editors for 3-year terms, to help spread our article review workload. Associate Editors are also members of the Network & Editorial Board which manages the journal and SSN. For more details, see here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Seeking Nominations for Associate Editor Positions at Surveillance & Society
| Surveillance & Society
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December 2, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Surveillance & Society / SSN is looking for new Associate Editors for 3-year terms, to help spread our article review workload. Associate Editors are also members of the Network & Editorial Board which manages the journal and SSN. For more details, see here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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Support for at-risk researchers: 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institution in the EU.
SAFE - Supporting
At-risk researchers
with Fellowships in Europe
As a pilot fellowship scheme, the SAFE project offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institutio...
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December 2, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Support for at-risk researchers: 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institution in the EU.
What would happen if OpenAI/ChatGPT happened to be a defendant in one of the cases before the court... would the court use ChatGPT to draft the legal rulings? (only one of many Q's I have about this.)
experimenting on the legal system is a terrible ideas folks
Buenos Aires’ justice system is using ChatGPT to write legal decisions. “We, as professionals, are not the main characters anymore. We have become editors,” said one deputy attorney general
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November 22, 2024 at 7:26 PM
What would happen if OpenAI/ChatGPT happened to be a defendant in one of the cases before the court... would the court use ChatGPT to draft the legal rulings? (only one of many Q's I have about this.)
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BlueSky disappeared one of my #StarterParks, so I had to reconstruct it. My packs are:
1. #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack (full): go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX
2. #Surveillance Studies Extension Pack (growing):
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3. Critical #SmartCities Starter Pack (growing):
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1. #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack (full): go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX
2. #Surveillance Studies Extension Pack (growing):
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3. Critical #SmartCities Starter Pack (growing):
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November 16, 2024 at 9:34 PM
BlueSky disappeared one of my #StarterParks, so I had to reconstruct it. My packs are:
1. #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack (full): go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX
2. #Surveillance Studies Extension Pack (growing):
go.bsky.app/HoDHyNe
3. Critical #SmartCities Starter Pack (growing):
go.bsky.app/H1Xd6SL
1. #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack (full): go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX
2. #Surveillance Studies Extension Pack (growing):
go.bsky.app/HoDHyNe
3. Critical #SmartCities Starter Pack (growing):
go.bsky.app/H1Xd6SL
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NYPD drone program launched: “The devices will provide live audio and video footage to officers’ department-issued smartphones and aid officers’ initial scene assessment.” www.govtech.com/public-safet...
NYPD Using Drones to Respond on ‘Select Priority’ Calls
The Drone as First Responder program, piloted earlier this year, is now operational in five command areas of the New York City Police Department. The devices are intended to assist police in respondin...
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November 16, 2024 at 2:17 PM
NYPD drone program launched: “The devices will provide live audio and video footage to officers’ department-issued smartphones and aid officers’ initial scene assessment.” www.govtech.com/public-safet...
Our open TT faculty position in Media Law and Technology is now open rank! We welcome scholars from all stages of their careers to apply. Senior scholars with First Amendment expertise may also be considered for an Endowed Chair. careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...
October 1, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Our open TT faculty position in Media Law and Technology is now open rank! We welcome scholars from all stages of their careers to apply. Senior scholars with First Amendment expertise may also be considered for an Endowed Chair. careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...