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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 10 — Inside Resistance, Design Justice

Finishing our “practice” section, we discuss surveillance in Palestine, resistance by Google employees, and a vision of just tech and…

10 min readNov 6, 2023

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 9 — Resistance and Making Change

A week of taking note of historical and present examples of creative and courageous resistance to surveillance systems

9 min readOct 30, 2023

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 9 — Resistance and Making Change

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 8— Theories of Change

What models do we hold when considering power and change? This week, we learn theories of change for ethical data science

9 min readOct 23, 2023

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 8— Theories of Change

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 7 — Imagination, Hope, Liberation

As we transition to thinking about our practice, and making change, can we even conceptualize in the first place that change is possible?

10 min readOct 16, 2023

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 7 — Imagination, Hope, Liberation

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 6— Student Projects

For this iteration, we take a look at a few student projects, where each analyzes a different surveillance measure

7 min readOct 10, 2023

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 6— Student Projects

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 5 — Synthesizing the Problem

As we finish out defining the “problem” of surveillance technology, we can step back and reflect, connecting some pieces together.

9 min readOct 2, 2023

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 5 — Synthesizing the Problem

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 4 — Scientific Management of Labor

This week we are covering Taylorism and the data-driven management of labor, exemplified through Amazon warehouse scanners.

10 min readSep 25, 2023

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 3 — Disciplinary Power, Racialization

In this iteration, we contend with the power of surveillance and examination to shape society; and its distinctly racialized character.

9 min readSep 18, 2023

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 3 — Disciplinary Power, Racialization

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 2 — (Surveillance) Capitalism & (Neo)liberalism

This week, we dive into surveillance capitalism by analyzing capitalism, liberalism, and neoliberalism as tools to judge surveillance logic

11 min readSep 11, 2023

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Deconstructing Surveillance Week 2 — (Surveillance) Capitalism & (Neo)liberalism

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Data and Power: Deconstructing Surveillance — Week 1

Introducing the first of several write-ups sharing out content from a data science ethics course taught at Tufts University!

7 min readSep 3, 2023

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Data and Power: Deconstructing Surveillance — Week 1

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Nick Rabb

Nick Rabb

PhD candidate in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Tufts University, organizer w/ Dissenters, MA Peace Action, formerly Sunrise Mvmt. Philosophy nerd.

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