Surveillance is often positioned as something that happens to us, but how are we also involved in engaging in it, especially as workers and technology users? ESHCC postdoctoral researcher Sarah Young will answer this in her newly published book Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication.
What is surveillance, and why should we care? Why are those who use technology and/or communicate technical information both agents and targets of contemporary surveillance practices? Sarah addresses these questions by discussing what it means to engage in surveillance, examining why this participation may be problematic, and offering entry points into assessing one's ethical and socially just involvement with surveillance.
As told through the positionality of a former security clearance investigator turned academic researcher, Sarah engages in an interdisciplinary conversation about surveillance, privacy, and technical communication and challenges us all to view ourselves as both technical communicators and workers of surveillance.
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