Spies, Trolls, Drones and Polls: Being(s) in Cyberspace
Four of the investigators presented the research they had conducted over the course of the project to an audience of lifelong learners as part of the University of Hull's OpenCampus Tea-Time Talks Series. The talks took place in March 2017 as follows:
Tuesday 7 March
'Saying it as it is': Speech Acts, Context and Tempered Agency in a Digital World
Tuesday 14 March
The Strategic and Moral Implications of Cyber Attack
Tuesday 21 March
Perceptions of Privacy, Surveillance, Trust, and Security in On Line Life
Tuesday 28 March
Digital Dystopias: Imagining Our Virtual Futures in a Post-Orwellian World
Digital Dystopias: A Cyber Film Festival
Digital Dystopias: A Cyber Film Festival took place in February 2017 and explored how digital technology is transforming society and shaping our collective futures through award-winning cinema, virtual reality, literature and performance.
The festival included six film screenings, four expert panels, virtual installations and a virtual reality performance across five days.
The festival was kindly supported by Hull City of Culture 2017 volunteers.
Cybersecurity Ethics: The Common Good and the Digital Commons as Justification Registers in Digital Governance, Surveillance and Security
October 19, 2016
This conference looked to debate and find common ground between seemingly divergent approaches to the cybersecurity dimension of digital governance. Particularly, the conference considered the use of the common good and the digital commons as justification registers in cybersecurity and digital governance.
What is the future for surveillance and data security as our world is increasingly structured by algorithmic decision-making, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and robotic cultures? What are the challenges and solutions, and what new concepts and practices need to be considered?
This pre-conference was associated with the projects The Common Good: Ethics and Rights in Cyber Security and Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society.
ERCS Workshop
ERCS first workshop looked at how to balance the needs of security against the rights of the individual. It questioned how attitudes to privacy and democracy interact with security measures and technologies in an environment of global uncertainties. Controversial surveillance leaks questioning the legitimacy, jurisdiction and ethical agency of leading democratic states internationally; the critical emergence of new sociopolitical formations in cyberspace; the hybrid media environment in diverse geopolitical settings, all point to the need to debate around these critical issues.