{"260071":{"#nid":"260071","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Santesso Brings Humanitiies Perspective to Conference for Surveillance Experts Worldwide","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAaron Santesso, associate professor in the\u003Cstrong\u003E School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, was invited to a one-day symposium in New York, \u201cSurveillance: What\u2019s the Harm?\u201d sponsored by the ACLU, Pen\/America, and Fordham University\u2019s Center for National Security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe symposium was attended by approximately two dozen of the world\u2019s leading experts on surveillance from fields including law, journalism, corporate technology, and the arts. It culminated in a standing-room only public forum, featuring, among others, Glenn Greenwald, James Bamford, Ariel Dorfman, and Bruce Schneier.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESantesso is co-author, with David Rosen (Trinity College), of The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood (Yale, 2013). Professors Santesso and Rosen, who also attended, were the sole representatives of the humanities, and spent much of the day putting present debates into historical perspective. They made the case for understanding surveillance as divided between two distinct activities: observing people in order to predict future events, and observing people in order to control their behavior. This division of surveillance into two modes \u2013 \u201cempathy and coercion\u201d \u2013 is central to the argument of their recent book. Santesso and Rosen further argued that coercive surveillance is of particular concern in cases where the lines between public and private (especially corporate) activity are blurred. The area of greatest danger \u2013 which they will continue to examine in their ongoing work \u2013 involves the uses of surveillance technology in education.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAaron Santesso, associate professor in the\u003Cstrong\u003E School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, was invited to a one-day symposium in New York, \u201cSurveillance: What\u2019s the Harm?\u201d sponsored by the ACLU, Pen\/America, and Fordham University\u2019s Center for National Security.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2013-12-10 16:17:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:33","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"223001":{"id":"223001","type":"image","title":"Aaron Santesso","body":null,"created":"1449243535","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:38:55","changed":"1475894894","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:14","alt":"Aaron Santesso","file":{"fid":"197345","name":"img_22.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_22_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_22_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":27432,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_22_0.jpg?itok=zyR6rKa5"}}},"media_ids":["223001"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}