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Katie Freund
@katiedigc.bsky.social
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#HigherEd, #FanStudies, #MedEd, #SocMed, #DigPed, #CriticalEdTech, and Marvel tragic. Canadian in Australia. She/her. Learning design manager at Australian National University School of Medicine and Psychology. Living on Ngunnawal country.
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There are many more bad tech products to avoid. But I keep coming back to @hypervisible.blacksky.app and David Golumbia’s concept of luxury surveillance.

We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.

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Ultimately, a lot of these products make me think of a concept called luxury surveillance coined by Chris Gilliard and the late David Golumbia a few years ago. They were arguing that there’s a line where forms of surveillance can feel oppressive to some — particularly poorer and marginalized groups in society — but that more privileged groups can feel are actually benefiting from them by making their lives easier or more convenient. Yet, Gilliard and Golumbia argue that line can easily shift, and while the surveillance may once have felt it was worth the trade off, it can quickly become an oppressive force for a much wider swath of people. “We need to develop a much deeper way of talking about surveillance technology and a much richer set of measures with which to regulate their use,” they wrote. “Just as much, we need to recognize that voluntarily adopting surveillance isn’t an isolated choice we make only for ourselves but one that impacts others in a variety of ways we may not recognize.” That’s something to consider in our everyday lives as much as when we’re choosing what to gift to others.
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The only source of info has been passed through parent group chats!
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Oh no! Get out of the subconscious, work thoughts!
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM