Digital Surveillance of Global Metropolitan Neighborhoods
Michel Laguerre, Professor
Globalization and Information Technology,Berkeley Center for (IGS)
Applications for Spring 2024 are closed for this project.
The focus of this study on digital surveillance provides social contexts to understand how it operates at the local, national, and global levels; how information technology is the instrument through which contemporary surveillance mostly materializes; and how the intersectionality of globalization, digitalization, and local city life generates a transversal ecosystem that sustains the monitoring process of global metropolitan neighborhoods.
Qualifications: Social sciences background
Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs
Weekly meetings via zoom
Email applications to bcgit@berkeley.edu or call 510-642-5992.
Role: Three students will be recruited to actively participate in this project. Each student/researcher will devote six hours per week to the project. The research consists of preparing thematic digital bibliographies, transcribing interviews, identifying potential informants, special topical assignments, and a weekly team-meeting in-person on campus at IGS.
Qualifications: Applicants should be at the junior or senior level.
Hours: 6-8 hrs
Social Sciences