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Bryce Newell

@bcnewell.bsky.social
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Petrone Fellow and Associate Professor, University of Oregon. Author of "Police Visibility": www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382909/… | Dialogue Editor, Surveillance & Society | Co-Director, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)

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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Job alert: Jonathan Marshall Endowed Chair and Associate/Full Professor of Media Law, First Amendment, Press Freedom at University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. I'm on the search committee, happy to answer questions. Apply at: careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New pre-print from @torinmonahan.bsky.social, Lanore Hahn, and me: "Against Mechanical Subjectivity: The Misalignment of Generative AI as a Tool for Qualitative Research." We argue that using GenAI tools is inconsistent w/ interpretive or constructivist positionality." osf.io/preprints/so...
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Today is the deadline to submit abstracts for #SSN2026, the SSN's biannual Surveillance & Society Conference! We look forward to having many of you join us for discussion, networking, and community-building at the conference. surveillance-studies.net/conference/ @survstudiesnet.bsky.social
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We've extended the deadline for #SSN2026 submissions to Jan. 21. If you haven't submitted yet, please do so! We look forward to seeing you in Lille, France, in June! SSN is a diverse and welcoming community of scholars. Join us! @survstudiesnet.bsky.social @surveillancemw.bsky.social #surveillance
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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award. The deadline for receipt of books from the publisher is October 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
SSN Book Prize summary text.
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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for its 2026 Arts Prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations is August 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
SSN Arts Prize description text.
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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🎉 We are excited to announce the 2024 winners of our #Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher prize for publications in our journal, Surveillance & Society 🎉 Check out their fantastic papers here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... Congratulations to the winners!!
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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Surveillance & Society has published a great new issue—w/ articles on data leaks, ceasefire monitoring, campus #protests, & much more! The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Three police officers standing in front of Gaza solidarity encampment tents at Columbia University. (Photo credit: Wm3214 via Wikimedia Commons.)
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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The first issue of Surveillance & Society of 2025 is out, including 6 original articles, a dialogue section on “Authoritarian Surveillance,” an editorial on Trump’s second presidency & 4 book reviews. #surveillance #authoritarianism #data #privacy ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2025): Open Issue | Surveillance & Society
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Marin K. Levy @marinklevy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
An important message from the ABA: "We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party ... change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less."
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The ABA supports the rule of law
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Is the US Republican Party on its way to becoming a totalitarian party? Asking for a friend... 8 U.S.C. § 1182(3)(D): "Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with . . . any . . . totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible."
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Looking for legal cases/scholarship that examines freedom of expression rights of immigrants in the EU--specifically, are there legal decisions by the CJEU/ECtHR that discuss whether the exceptions to Article 10 (ECHR)/Article 11 (Charter) apply to limit the free expression rights of immigrants?
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Another of several worthwhile threads on the TikTik v. Garland (the TikTik ban case) decision today by the US Supreme Court:
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
One of several worthwhile threads on the TikTik v. Garland (the TikTik ban case) decision today by the US Supreme Court:
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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
If anything, Issue #4 was my favourite of 2024, not least because of the special dialogue section on #syntheticdata, edited by @bcnewell.bsky.social, but also because the first article is titled "Squeeveillance" and deals with #surveillance and cuteness. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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Vol. 22 No. 4 (2024): Open Issue | Surveillance & Society
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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
2024 in review. SSN and Surveillance & Society have had a great year! This was the 22nd Volume of S&S, and we also ran our 10th international conference. Let's start with Surveillance & Society. Under @torinmonahan.bsky.social's brilliant stewardship, we published 4 issues of the journal...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/12/2024
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration. www.vox.com/technology/3...
TECHNOLOGY
An AI that sees what you see
Microsoft wants an AI companion to follow you around the web. This is only the beginning.To me, though, the ambition here feels somewhat limitless. What if an AI assistant could see your whole world, know what was what, and help you navigate it? That’s the big idea behind Copilot Vision. Letting an AI watch you browse the web is just a step toward putting an AI companion on your shoulder everywhere you go.

In a recent interview, Suleyman explained why collaborating with AI is the future of computing. This is frankly something I’ve heard tech companies pitch for years. But the way things are heading, I’m finally starting to buy it.
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Louis Ravn @louravn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
So glad to be part of this Dialogue on the surveillance implications of synthetic data/media in the new issue of Surveillance & Society 💫 Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social and @empo11on.bsky.social for facilitating this! Also big thank you to all authors who engage in the dialogue (see below) 🌞
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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society is out now, the last one of 2024. This open issue offers six original articles, a special Dialogue Section on the surveillance dimensions of “Synthetic Data,” and two book reviews. #surveillance #data #academicsky ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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Vol. 22 No. 4 (2024): Open Issue | Surveillance & Society
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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
SSN and Surveillance & Society are looking for self-nominations for a new Communications Editor to join our board, run SSN's website, blog and more... deadline: January 6th 2025. #surveillance #academicsky ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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Seeking a Communications Editor | Surveillance & Society
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Aaron Martin @sixfouronea.net · 07/12/2024
I thoroughly enjoyed co-editing this new 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 & 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 dialogue on #synthetic #data and #surveillance. Great papers on topics such as data governance, theorizing synthetic surveillance, and media ethics. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... Thanks to @bcnewell.bsky.social for the opp!
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In "Synthetic Data, Synthetic Media, and Surveillance," @empo11on.bsky.social and I address the lack of attention to the surveillance implications of synthetic data and synthetic media in surveillance literature. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... @survstudiesnet.bsky.social
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Synthetic Data, Synthetic Media, and Surveillance | Surveillance & Society
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
New article: "Abstracting Injustice" in which we explore how the neorepublican concepts of domination and antipower can contribute to surveillance studies & technology development and deployment within the criminal justice system ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... @survstudiesnet.bsky.social
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Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Surveillance & Society / SSN is looking for new Associate Editors for 3-year terms, to help spread our article review workload. Associate Editors are also members of the Network & Editorial Board which manages the journal and SSN. For more details, see here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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Seeking Nominations for Associate Editor Positions at Surveillance & Society | Surveillance & Society
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Surveillance in the Majority World Network @surveillancemw.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Support for at-risk researchers: 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institution in the EU.
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SAFE - Supporting 
At-risk researchers 
with Fellowships in Europe
As a pilot fellowship scheme, the SAFE project offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institutio...
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
What would happen if OpenAI/ChatGPT happened to be a defendant in one of the cases before the court... would the court use ChatGPT to draft the legal rulings? (only one of many Q's I have about this.)
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 16/11/2024
BlueSky disappeared one of my #StarterParks, so I had to reconstruct it. My packs are: 1. #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack (full): go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX 2. #Surveillance Studies Extension Pack (growing): go.bsky.app/HoDHyNe 3. Critical #SmartCities Starter Pack (growing): go.bsky.app/H1Xd6SL
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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
NYPD drone program launched: “The devices will provide live audio and video footage to officers’ department-issued smartphones and aid officers’ initial scene assessment.” www.govtech.com/public-safet...
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NYPD Using Drones to Respond on ‘Select Priority’ Calls
The Drone as First Responder program, piloted earlier this year, is now operational in five command areas of the New York City Police Department. The devices are intended to assist police in respondin...
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Our open TT faculty position in Media Law and Technology is now open rank! We welcome scholars from all stages of their careers to apply. Senior scholars with First Amendment expertise may also be considered for an Endowed Chair. careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Reminder: we are hiring an Assistant Professor of Media Law and Technology here at the University of Oregon. Apply by Oct. 15, and feel free to reach out with questions (I'm chairing the search committee). careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2024
Wait, what. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Artificial intelligence needs to be injected into police forces “like heroin into the bloodstream” to ease the paperwork burden for officers, a leading officer has said.
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
We are hiring! Assistant Professor of Media Law and Technology careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53... at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC). The hire could fit into (or across) any of our areas: media studies, journalism, advertising, and/or public relations.
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
We’re hiring a media law and technology scholar (TT Assistant Professorship) at the University of Oregon! Find the job ad at careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Any fellow academics out there ever ever get into the credit card points-and-miles/rewards-travel hobby to cover sabbatical, or other, travel (esp. with a family)? If so, how'd it go? If not, what has kept you away from that strategy?
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Extended deadline for #SSN2024 - now January 14! The 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)/Surveillance & Society (S&S) Conference will be held on 28-31 May 2024 at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (with an online track for those who can't join in person). easychair.org/cfp/SSN2024
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Reminder: #SSN2024 abstracts are due December 31! The 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)/Surveillance & Society (S&S) Conference will be held on 28-31 May 2024 at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (with an online track for those who can't join in person). easychair.org/cfp/SSN2024
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
I'd love to work with grad students interested in surveillance, privacy, data regulation, free speech, info/tech+society, or media law. Our PhD program in Communication & Media Studies is accepting applications until Jan 1: journalism.uoregon.edu/academics/gr...
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Reminder: SSN2024 is open for submissions. Join us in Ljubljana, Slovenia for the 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) and Surveillance & Society Conference (#SSN2024), 28-31 May 2024. CFP: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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Call for Submissions: Surveillance in an Age of Crisis #SSN2024 | Surveillance & Society ...
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Media Law profs (esp. in J/Comm schools): What new First Amendment, privacy, or copyright cases have you enjoyed adding to your media law classes in the last couple of years? I'm revamping my syllabus.
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
I'll be teaching Communication Law to a single online class of 350 students in Winter term. Wish me... survival. :-)
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Is there such a thing outside the US as student "Model US" events? Just saw something about the Model EU program we send students to and wondered if anyone out there is modeling US politics (although, legitimate question: why?).
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
How do you teach aspiring researchers about predatory journals and how to distinguish between scholarly sources? (And do you do/say anything when you see a colleague publishing with these places?)
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 07/09/2023
Are you a #surveillancestudies scholar or do you work on #surveillance, #security, #privacy, #datajustice or similar issues? Do you want to write for the Handbook of Critical Surveillance Studies? Find out more here: pad.riseup.net/p/r.a0ee4615...
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
We have just released the list of accepted papers and initial details about plenary panel discussions at the Oregon Surveillance Studies Workshop #SSNOregon2023 Registration is also open. Join us in person or online! blogs.uoregon.edu/ssnoregon202...
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
I can see the sky today in Eugene! (Smoke from nearby wildfires is still visible to the east, but it is nice to have a little reprieve after days of up to 360 AQI air outside.)
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
I'm delighted that my book, "Police Visibility" was awarded the 2022 Book Award by the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN): ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su…. The book: www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382909/…
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Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
We have published the preliminary program for the Beyond Data Protection Conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on Sept. 21-22. infolegproject.net/wp-content/uploa… Registration is still open and is free! infolegproject.net
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