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ERCS Workshop
On the 6 May 2015 ERCS held its first workshop exploring the conception of the common good: ethics and rights in cyber security. With rich participation, the workshop was a lively event with in-depth academic discussions.
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In 2014 Professor James Connelly, (Director of IAE, Hull), Dr Athina Karatzogianni, (Lecturer in Media and Communications Leicester University) Dr David Lonsdale (Lecturer in Security Studies, Hull) and Dr Simon Willmetts (Lecturer in American Studies, Hull) bid for and received funding for their groundbreaking and innovative project on the Common Good: Ethics and Rights in Cyber Security.
'The Common Good: Ethics and Rights in Cyber Security' (ERCS) project seeks to understand where the balance lies between security and ethics in digital governance. If the recent controversies of U.S governmental surveillance and implicated technology companies demonstrated anything, it is the need for proportionate, just and effective cyber security in digital governance that is committed to the common good. This research project takes a multidisciplinary approach, bringing together experts in the fields of social science, security studies, intelligence studies, cultural studies, political philosophy, and public policy and institutional ethics. With such arrange of disciplines represented, the project is ideally placed to provide a balanced analysis of the subject, ensuring that governance, security, and rights and ethics are all taken account of.
Cybersecurity Ethics: The Common Good and the Digital Commons as Justification Registers in Digital Governance, Surveillance and Security
This two-day, international, interdisciplinary conference took place at the University of Hull between 20-21 October 2016 and included plenary talks by experts in the fields of political philosophy, digital surveillance and global security.
More details can be found here
Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication
This IAMCR pre-conference took place on 26 July 2016 at the University of Leicester and welcomed researchers from around the world to discuss prevalent issues focusing upon the consequences of algorithmic communication and artifical intelligence. The programme included papers on a wide range of topics, covering areas such as surveillance, security, ethics, hacking, drone technology and more.
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
More details can be found here