The DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism) Network will host “Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression” on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, from 4:00–5:30pm (ET), at the University of Michigan and on Zoom. Organized through the Digital Studies Institute and the DISCO Network, this public panel convenes activists, scholars, and writers working at the intersections of surveillance, racial and disability justice, and digital culture.
Panelists Victoria Copeland, Megan Fereday, Kim Gallon, and Wells Lucas Santo will discuss how health justice, discrimination, technofascism, and surveillance shape everyday life, as well as possibilities for grassroots response and community care. The conversation focuses on collectivizing and collaborating under conditions of intensified tracking and data extraction, asking how communities can resist technocentric forms of control while building more equitable digital futures.
The event is free and open to the public, with a strong invitation to undergraduate and graduate students, librarians, technologists, and others interested in critical digital studies and social justice. Hybrid participation is available via in-person and Zoom registration, and accessibility services will include CART captioning and ASL interpretation.
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