Accountability and the State in the Age of Technology

Description

Free and open to all but Online Registration is required. Limited places
NB: Different venue only today, Erasmus Room at Queens' College, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9ET
 

Reading Group
Graham Denyer Willis (Cambridge)
Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (Durham

This seminar will examine accountability and the state in the age of technology through the lens of Facebook’s content moderation of police brutality in Brazil and a citizen-led forensic DNA database in Mexico.

About the former, Graham Denyer Willis (Cambridge) asks, how does the decision to make some content invisible, taken from a new 'command center' (Sassen 1992), reveal a new moment in capitalism?

About the latter, Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (Durham) would like to explore the social and political implications of sidestepping governmental and forensic authorities in the search for truth in contexts of mass atrocities – especially when we defy the dominant state-centric regulation of truth making processes such as forensic DNA. 

These scholars will open this seminar in dialogue, followed by a conversation among all participants on these topics and their connections to transparency.  Accordingly, we ask that all participants read their pre-circulated papers. 

 

Participants – please Register Online and contact the organizers (Dr McPherson or Dr Moore) for a copy of the papers.

Please join the mailing list here to receive further information on joining the reading group as well as on the lecture schedule.

 

 

 

Part of The Politics and Paradoxes od Transparency Research Group series

Administrative assistance: gradfac@crassh.cam.ac.uk