Technologies of Surveillance: Difference between revisions

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Background

The Technologies of Surveillance Working Group was formed at the end of the 2017 DLF Forum by Yasmeen Shorish and Shea Swauger. This group came out of the Surveyance or Surveillance? Working Lunch at the Forum and is dedicated to interrogating our relationships with data collection technologies. Libraries are increasingly investing in systems that can track and correlate user behavior.

This group will interrogate the methods and ethical implications of these technologies and seeks to establish guidelines for how to operationalize interrogation of technology, wherever we encounter it in our profession. To that end, we expanded our initial idea of three sub-groups to five, based on community feedback. Our investigative areas are:

Library-led Systems

This sub-group investigates the systems that libraries create, such as open source repositories.

Vendor Supplied Systems

This sub-group investigates the systems that libraries purchase or lease, such as an ILS or database.

Instruction and Outreach

This sub-group investigates effective outreach and instruction strategies for our communities on topic related to data collection and privacy.

Professional Research Ethics

This sub-group will investigate surveillance ethics in library-based research.

Advocacy

This sub-group will investigate how to resist administrative pressure to surrender library data to campus and/or engage in privacy-damaging assessment practices.

Get Involved

Please join our DLF-administered listserv. We also have a Slack space set up, with channels for each of the subgroups. Email Shea Swauger to gain access to the Slack space.

Data collection behavior extends far beyond the systems that libraries have direct connections with. One way to help track the news stories and investigative work done in this area is through Twitter, using the hashtag #panoptitech. Follow this tag and add any relevant stories that you come across!

Meetings

2018-01-31 Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qm_qKnC6BLaUPWjbHQuKQlAwBX1Zb5FQeOwUcCPBlAg/edit

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 The Technologies of Surveillance Working Group was formed at the end of the 2017 DLF Forum by Yasmeen Shorish and Shea Swauger. This group came out of the [https://osf.io/eghdn/ Surveyance or Surveillance? Working Lunch] at the Forum and is dedicated to interrogating our relationships with data collection technologies. Libraries are increasingly investing in systems that can track and correlate user behavior.
-This group will interrogate the methods and ethical implications of these technologies and '''seeks to establish guidelines''' for how to operationalize interrogation of technology, whether in systems that we create or purchase, or through our classroom instruction. To that end, we propose an initial three sub-groups to look at the following areas:
+This group will interrogate the methods and ethical implications of these technologies and '''seeks to establish guidelines''' for how to operationalize interrogation of technology, wherever we encounter it in our profession. To that end, we expanded our initial idea of three sub-groups to five, based on community feedback. Our investigative areas are:
 === Library-led Systems ===
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 === Instruction and Outreach ===
 This sub-group investigates effective outreach and instruction strategies for our communities on topic related to data collection and privacy.
+=== Professional Research Ethics ===
+This sub-group will investigate surveillance ethics in library-based research.
+=== Advocacy ===
+This sub-group will investigate how to resist administrative pressure to surrender library data to campus and/or engage in privacy-damaging assessment practices.
 == Get Involved ==