Surveillance, Screens & Digital Selves

Surveillance, Screens & Digital Selves examines how power operates through platforms, algorithms, interfaces, and data regimes that shape contemporary subjectivity. From social media performance and algorithmic visibility to biometric control, digital intimacy, and online self-fashioning, we approach digital life not as neutral technology, but as a contested terrain where belonging, exclusion, desire, labour, and resistance are constantly negotiated through screens.

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January 7, 2026

The body as “policy risk”: racialised nudity enforcement against Afro-Brazilian protest

Content warning: This piece discusses content moderation, non-sexual nudity, and references to sexually explicit advertising. Meta says it enforces one set of rules for everyone. But when non-sexual images of…

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January 5, 2026

Suspicion by default: how UK eVisas and share codes make the digital border a daily obstacle for migrant artists

On a wet Thursday night in late November 2025, a small venue in south London is trying to do what it always does: get the band on stage before the…

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Surveillance, Screens & Digital Selves

December 26, 2025

Sex Working Artists in Canada Fight Meta Deletions

Content warning: This article discusses sex work, the policy framing of trafficking, online harassment, and the loss of digital accounts and income. Toronto, late autumn 2025: the crowd spills onto…

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December 15, 2025

Why Palestinian Fashion Vanishes on Instagram in London: Shadowbans, “Political Content” and the New Culture War

In late 2024 and early 2025, London-based Palestinian fashion creators began reporting a sudden and sustained collapse in Instagram reach. Posts that had previously circulated through Explore and Reels stopped…

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November 12, 2025

From Operation Condor to Content Takedowns: How Platforms Police South American Memory

From junta-era raids to algorithmic invisibility, Latin America’s memory work faces new gatekeepers. What might digital transitional justice look like in practice? Content warning: This article contains mentions of state…

Black and white image of travelers at a bustling airport in Pasay, capturing the essence of global travel.

Surveillance, Screens & Digital Selves

November 6, 2025

When Airports Become Laboratories of Identity: Mobility, Belonging, and the Black Atlantic

At five in the morning in Lagos, the terminal hums with the promise of order. Murtala Muhammed International Airport, recently equipped with biometric eGates financed through global partnerships, presents itself…

Surveillance, Screens & Digital Selves

November 5, 2025

Singapore’s Smart City and the Politics of Compliant Citizenship

Singapore’s smart city stories usually open with the same postcard: Marina Bay Sands glowing over the bay, driverless trains gliding into spotless stations, cashless payments that work so smoothly you…

Surveillance, Screens & Digital Selves

November 5, 2025

Biometric welfare: data extraction in Nordic social systems

It is 2025 in Turku, Finland. A nurse receives a Suomi.fi prompt on the tram. The message nudges her to activate digital post, routing communications through systems that log metadata…

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November 3, 2025

Facial Recognition at Borders and the Racialised Traveller

Across Britain’s airports and ports, automated gates have quietly become the new face of national security. The government presents them as efficient, impartial and convenient — an emblem of post-Brexit…

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May 4, 2025

The New Public Squares: Community Empowerment Through Technology

The emergence of digital activism in local communities has reshaped how neighbours connect and campaign for change. Where town halls once thrived as the core of civic life, virtual spaces…

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Surveillance, Screens & Digital Selves

The body as “policy risk”: racialised nudity enforcement against Afro-Brazilian protest

Sex Working Artists in Canada Fight Meta Deletions

Why Palestinian Fashion Vanishes on Instagram in London: Shadowbans, “Political Content” and the New Culture War

From Operation Condor to Content Takedowns: How Platforms Police South American Memory

When Airports Become Laboratories of Identity: Mobility, Belonging, and the Black Atlantic

Singapore’s Smart City and the Politics of Compliant Citizenship

Facial Recognition at Borders and the Racialised Traveller

The New Public Squares: Community Empowerment Through Technology

Who gets to be loud in London? Irish and Caribbean spoken-word nights, borders, and the price of space

Pasifika climate change art: Pacific artists paint disappearance

The body as “policy risk”: racialised nudity enforcement against Afro-Brazilian protest

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