DIGITAL RACISM? AUTOMATED SURVEILLANCE TECHNIQUES AS TOOLS OF SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION

Jan WASZEWSKI¹, Maciej GURTOWSKI²

Transformations of Man and Society: Ideas, Perspectives

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015,  Publication date: 4 May 2015

Article No. 20150504161931847

Keywords: surveillance, race profiling, data double, segregation, discrimination

Abstract This article examines one dimension of the changes in surveillance: the way in which dataveillance influences social segregation and emergence of the new forms of discrimination. The paper begins at presentation of the key concepts in surveillance studies. One of them is the creation of ‘data doubles’: stored in databases and utilized in surveillance counterparts of their material originals – people. The phenomenon of the digital racism is based on sorting and discriminating some people because of the attributes of their data doubles.

1. Zakład Interesów Grupowych Instytutu Socjologii UMK w Toruniu

   E-mail: jan.waszewski@gmail.com

2. Zakład Interesów Grupowych Instytutu Socjologii UMK w Toruniu

   E-mail: urtowski@gmail.com

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