Martin A. French

Martin French is an Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. Martin’s research examines the social dimensions of technology with an empirical focus on communications & information technology (CIT). It emphasizes the broader social and political contexts of CIT, focusing especially on risk, surveillance, privacy, and social justice. Current projects examine how people and organizations use surveillance and other risk-management techniques to identify and address risks. A key focus in this work is a critical examination of who may be advantaged, and who may be disadvantaged, by surveillance and risk-management practices. What impacts, in other words, do surveillance and risk-management practices have on our collective efforts to realize social justice?