How wonderful to be back at Rio for #aoir2025 - giving paper 2 this morning on the infrastructural violence of digital ID room 8g @ 9am
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Mirca Madianou
@madianou
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Researching technology and automation in asymmetrical settings. ΝΕW BOOK: Techocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Technocolonialism%3A+When+Technology+for+Good+is+Harmful-p-9781509559022
Polity‘Superbly evidenced and argued, this is a must-read that will define critical scholarship on #humanitarianism as well as media and communications for years to come.’
Lilie Chouliaraki on @madianou 's ‘Technocolonialism’
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Launch for #technocolonialism book happening TODAY - now! - 3pm at the Polity stand in the Octagon Main Hall #aoir2024 with a few words by Lina Dancik, Mary Savigar and me. I’m told there will be wine! All welcome! politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo...
If you are at #AoIR2024 and would like to find out more about the #technocolonialism book, I'll be giving a talk on 'Surreptitious Experimentation and Infrastructural Violence' on Friday 1st Nov, 11am - at the Infrastructures panel.
Massive thanks to Zach Blas whose Face Cages installation / Endurance performance with Elle Mehrmand provided the video still for the book cover. The ‘Face Cages’ installation visualises the violence of #technocolonialism and provides a visual entry point to the book’s themes. I discuss Zach Blas’ work in the book’s introduction https://zachblas.info/works/face-cages/
The book would not exist without the generosity of my interlocutors across different fieldsites who have generously given me their time and shared their stories. I am forever grateful.
The book has been a long personal journey. It's a difficult, painful topic and it needed all my energy and attention. It feels odd to mark its publication when the topic is disturbing and the world we live in so troubled, but I wrote #Technocolonialism in hope it will contribute to conversations about the tenacity of colonialism, the harms of AI and, ultimately, what can be done. So in that spirit I share the details.
My new book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' is published in the UK/ EU this week by @politybooks
The book charts how digital humanitarianism, through AI and datafication, harms some of the world's most vulnerable people.
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=technocolonialism-when-technology-for-good-is-harmful--9781509559022
For those coming to #AoIR2024 in Sheffield please come to the book launch on Thursday 31st October, 3pm at the Polity stand. There will be wine / refreshments and some brief talks. All welcome!
Privacy International📢 New tech research 📢 We uncover the harms of the UK Home Office’s latest migration surveillance tools.
The UK are deploying portable fingerprint scanners, termed ‘non-fitted devices’ (NFDs), that track the live GPS location of migrants on immigration bail and demand that they provide their fingerprints at random intervals per day.
Non-fitted devices in the Home Office’s surveillance arsenal: Investigating the technology behind GPS fingerprint scanners
IntroductionWith the ongoing expansion of GPS tagging under the UK Home Office's electronic monitoring programme, it has increasingly deployed non-fitted devices (NFDs) that tra