Gavin JD Smith

Experience

• –present
  Associate Professor in Sociology, ANU

Education

• 2009 
  The University of Aberdeen, PhD in Sociology

Publications

• 2021
  Pre-crime, control and mass preventive justice, The Pre-Crime Society: Crime Culture and Control in the Ultramodern Age
• 2020
  The politics of algorithmic governance in the black box city, Big Data & Society
• 2020
  Mapping Platform Urbanism: Charting the Nuance of the Platform Pivot, Urban Planning
• 2020
  Digital Health Tools and Patients with Drug Use Disorders: Qualitative Patient Experience Study of the Electronic Case - Finding and Help Assessment Tool (eCHAT), Journal of Medical Internet Research
• 2020
  Promoting interdisciplinary research through transversality - an aid to communicating more effectively with health sociologists, Family Practice
• 2020
  'Smart’ Crime Prevention? Digitization and Racialized Crime Control in a Smart City, Theoretical Criminology
• 2019
  Conversations about obesity need to be realistic and informed, Australian Journal of General Practice
• 2018
  Data doxa: The affective consequences of data practices, Big Data & Society
• 2018
  'A Much Better Person': The Agential Capacities of Self-Tracking Practices, Metric Culture: Ontologies of Self-Tracking Practices
• 2017
  Driving politics: data-driven governance and resistance, The British Journal of Criminology
• 2017
  The challenges of doing criminology in the Big Data era: towards a digital and data-driven approach, The British Journal of Criminology
• 2017
  Health by Numbers? Exploring the practice and experience of datafied health, Health Sociology Review
• 2017
  Theorising digital media cultures: The politics of watching and being watched, The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights
• 2016
  Companion Surveillance and Surveillant Subjectivities: On the Seduction of Seeing and Being Seen, Media Fields Journal: Critical Explorations in Media and Space
• 2015
  Surveillance, datafication and embodiment: On the work of being watched, Body & Society
• 2015
  Exposing Bodies: Surveillance and Embodiment, Body & Society
• 2015
  Opening the Black Box: The Work of Watching, Routledge
• 2015
  Life through a Lens: on the cultural resonances of the disciplinary gaze, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
• 2013
  Health surveillance: new modes of monitoring bodies, populations, and polities, Critical Public Health

Grants and Contracts

• 2020
  When your face is your ID: Public responses to automated facial recognition

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

• The Australian Sociological Association

Research Areas

• Sociology (1608)
• Criminology (1602)
• Social Theory (160806)
• Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology (160808)
• Criminological Theories (160204)
• Environmental Sociology (160802)