Time magazine is in agreement with many international news publications in suggesting that warrantless mass surveillance was the top news
story of 2013, due to what they call "the most important leak of classified intelligence ever."
The editorial
boards of both New York Times and The Guardian have called for clemency
for the whistleblower that revealed this uniquely valuable information to the
citizenry via news media.
Mass
surveillance will have enormous and enduring implications for social research,
and it naturally changes the way we think about artistic freedom/freedom of
expression and the nature of our participation in online environments
(including online education). In the field of music, these developments are of great interest to composers and performers engaged in any creative activities that make use of the Internet, or who participate in any international projects, which applies to a large proportion of artists in the present day. For researchers, the privacy of data and our abilities to preserve anonymity in research are naturally topics of concern.
I look forward
to giving a keynote speech soon on the topic “Artistic Freedom and Online
Learning in an Era of Mass Surveillance” for an interdisciplinary international
conference in Sweden, entitled “Cultural
Practices, Literacies and Technological Mediations. It will be held at Örebro
University, March 3-5 2014. The conference is hosted by three research centers
associated with the Swedish Research Council-supported national research school
LIMCUL, Literacies, Multilingualism and Cultural Practices in present day
society.
My speech will also become an article in a special issue of the scholarly journal Policy Futures in Education.
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