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SAID Newsletter- State, surveillance, and the role of technology

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  • 1. ROR icon University of Delhi

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  • 1. Miranda House, University of Delhi

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The Society of Advanced Interdepartmental Discussion is pleased to announce its first Newsletter, edited in-house and written by our very own research vertical and SAID members!
Our theme for this period was Panopticon Surveillance and how governments and other institutions shape the behaviour of societies through the threat of surveillance. The Panopticon was an idea conceived by Jeremy Bentham-an architectural design for prisons that allowed the inmates to be monitored at all times. In our day and age, cyber surveillance is the one concept that comes to mind, this constant scrutiny of our thoughts, minds and bodies. This edition includes article reviews relevant in this context. 
 
These entries reflect our multidisciplinary approach and hence include:
1.The Panopticon- Zainab Nazki 
2. Academic opportunities corner 
3.Cultural Capitalism, Panopticon and the Objectification of the Subject- Arushi Verma 
4.Promise of the Algorithmic Cerberus: Dangers of Predictive Policing- Afreen 
5. Surveilling ourselves into self-commodification- Roha Sidhu 
6. Containment, control and surveillance: a qualitative inquiry into eating disorders and the COVID-19 pandemic- Diksha Singh 
7.Facing up to the Risks of Automated Facial Recognition Technologies in Indian Law Enforcement- Soumadri Mukerjee 
8.Revisiting Foucault’s panopticon: how does AI surveillance transform educational norms? - Saanvi Randhawa 
9.Black box society- Zainab Nazki
 

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