Gary Kafer
@gkafer.bsky.social
Teaching Fellow, Cinema & Media Studies, UChicago • researching surveillance technology and digital culture
https://chicago.academia.edu/GaryKafer
https://chicago.academia.edu/GaryKafer
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Gary Kafer
@gkafer.bsky.social
· Jul 3
Perspectives on global surveillance: Introduction to special section by Gary Kafer, p. 1
www.ejumpcut.org
Really proud to see that the special dossier "Perspectives on Global Surveillance" which I edited for JUMP CUT is now online! It features a timely selection of texts from a wonderful range of scholars.
Link here for the introduction: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...
Link here for the introduction: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...
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IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)
July 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)
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My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model.
This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.
This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
www.eff.org
July 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model.
This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.
This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.
Really proud to see that the special dossier "Perspectives on Global Surveillance" which I edited for JUMP CUT is now online! It features a timely selection of texts from a wonderful range of scholars.
Link here for the introduction: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...
Link here for the introduction: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...
Perspectives on global surveillance: Introduction to special section by Gary Kafer, p. 1
www.ejumpcut.org
July 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Really proud to see that the special dossier "Perspectives on Global Surveillance" which I edited for JUMP CUT is now online! It features a timely selection of texts from a wonderful range of scholars.
Link here for the introduction: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...
Link here for the introduction: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...
Thrilled to see my article on speculative media-making practices using generative AI appear in the latest issue of @jcmsjournal.bsky.social! Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
February 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thrilled to see my article on speculative media-making practices using generative AI appear in the latest issue of @jcmsjournal.bsky.social! Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
Really great read about the contradictions of state archives of surveillance.
Archives of the Surveilled
Arthur Huff Fauset’s elision from literary history was not merely a scholarly oversight but a reality constructed in advance by powerful forces.
www.publicbooks.org
January 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Really great read about the contradictions of state archives of surveillance.
Calling all grad students in SCMS! Please consider submitting to the Media, Science, Technology SIG Grad Essay award. I’ll be on the judging panel. Let me know if you have any questions!
Announcing the MST SIG - 2025 Graduate Student Essay Awards. Submission deadline is 2/15/25 by 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Send an email with the subject line MST-SIG Graduate Student Essay Award Paper to scmsmstsig@gmail.com
The winner will be announced during the SCMS Chicago 2025 conference in April!
Send an email with the subject line MST-SIG Graduate Student Essay Award Paper to scmsmstsig@gmail.com
The winner will be announced during the SCMS Chicago 2025 conference in April!
December 12, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Calling all grad students in SCMS! Please consider submitting to the Media, Science, Technology SIG Grad Essay award. I’ll be on the judging panel. Let me know if you have any questions!
For my inaugural post on this platform, I'm excited to share my recent publication in Cultural Studies on the use of weather data in predictive analytics, including predictive policing and social media sentiment analysis. Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
November 21, 2024 at 12:44 AM
For my inaugural post on this platform, I'm excited to share my recent publication in Cultural Studies on the use of weather data in predictive analytics, including predictive policing and social media sentiment analysis. Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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My new book Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance Experiment is now out @ucpress.bsky.social. Let me tell you a bit about what's in it.
November 6, 2024 at 4:51 PM
My new book Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance Experiment is now out @ucpress.bsky.social. Let me tell you a bit about what's in it.
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My Surveillance Studies Starter Pack is evolving and expanding rapidly...
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November 9, 2024 at 4:13 PM
My Surveillance Studies Starter Pack is evolving and expanding rapidly...
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