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Choi-Fitzpatrick in Slate

October 10, 2014
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CMDS associate faculty Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick contributed an article to Slate's FutureTense series called "How the FAA’s Drone Policy Will Affect the Rest of The World."

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Privacy Breaches in Europe Report

October 7, 2014
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Half of all the privacy breaches affecting people in Europe are inside jobs according to new research from Central European University.

The findings come from a report released by the Center for Media, Data and Society directed by Phil Howard, CEU Professor of Global Media and Communication.  The project applies rigorous empirical social science methods to the study of digital media and society.

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Center Adopts New Name

October 6, 2014
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In September 2014 we adopted a new name.  We took on a new name that more closely reflected the interests and expertise of the faculty and staff here and we re-launched Center for Data, Media and Society.  Our research program on journalism, telecommunications policy, and communication trends continues.  But this new name represents our additional expertise in technology policy, drones, big data, and the internet of things.  

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Sejal Parmar at the 2014 Association of Human Rights Institutes Conference

October 1, 2014
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Sejal Parmar, assistant professor in the Department of Legal Studies and a member of the core faculty of the Center for Media, Data and Society at the School of Public Policy, presented a paper entitled “Othering in an Era of Mass Surveillance: the Whistleblower, Journalist and Foreigner” at a panel during the 2014 Association of H

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Oliver Leistert, former CMDS Fellow, is awarded the Surveillance Studies Book Prize 2014

October 1, 2014
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The SSN Annual Book Prize, for the best surveillance studies monograph published in 2013, has been awarded to Oliver Leistert for From Protest to Surveillance: The Political Rationality of Mobile Media (Peter Lang). 

A short abstract of the book can be found here:

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