The University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication recently welcomed two visiting scholars, Kelly Gates and Sonia Livingstone, for the Fall 2015 semester as part of its Scholars Program in Culture and Communication. Kelly Gates, University of California, San Diego Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and the Science Studies Program, specializes in the study of digital media, surveillance, and visual culture. Her book Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance, addresses the automation of facial recognition and facial expression analysis and how its application in policing, security, and social media...
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