Technology, Time, & Information: A Genealogy of Police Digitalization

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• Dean Wilson, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Sussex
• Wednesday 05 November 2025, 17:00-19:00
• Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

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This presentation adopts a genealogical approach, tracing the emergence of police ‘platformization’ in the United States: the movement of the technical infrastructures of police agencies to cloud-based information architectures that infuse police organizations and are imagined as suturing disparate data streams together into seamless flows. The seminar will reflect upon the importance of pursuing a ‘history of the present’ of police digitalization, and by implication societal digitalization more broadly.

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This talk is part of the Centre of Governance & Human Rights (CGHR) Seminar Series series.

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