Join the Center for Information Policy Research, the Social Studies of Information Research Group, and the UWM Libraries for a special lecture by Dr. Kelly Gates (Communication, UC-San Diego) in celebration of Choose Privacy Week, an annual initiative of the American Library Association that invites the public into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age.

THE COMPUTATIONAL WORK OF POLICING: Surveillance Video & the Forensic Sensibility

Dr. Kelly Gates
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
Science Studies Program
University of California, San Diego

As a result of the widespread diffusion of CCTV security systems, recorded surveillance video has become a prolific source of evidence in criminal investigations. In this talk, Kelly Gates examines the evidentiary uses of recorded surveillance video, arguing that the status of video as evidence is the result of an intentional process of production, one that involves repurposing technologies and techniques borrowed from the domain of creative media production. She examines the effort to establish the scientific and legal credibility of forensic video analysis, showing how the scientific and legal status of forensic video analysis depends fundamentally on the professionalization of its practitioners.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013
2:00 – 4:00pm
UWM Libraries
4th Floor Conference Center
2311 E Hartford Ave Milwaukee, WI 53211

Please Register online: http://sois.uwm.edu/ZZX