The Line Between Satellite Imagery and National Security for Second Annual Paul Attallah Lecture
5:00 PM on Thursday Mar. 4th, 2010
Cambridge Room of the Holiday Inn, 111 Cooper Street
5:00 PM on Thursday Mar. 4th, 2010
Cambridge Room of the Holiday Inn, 111 Cooper Street
Dr. Lisa Parks, chair of film and media studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), will present a talk entitled Zeroing In: Infrastructure Ruins and Datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq. She is delivering the 2010 Paul Attallah Lecture, named in honour of one of Carleton’s longest-serving faculty at the School of Journalism and Communication and a nationally recognized scholar.
Parks will analyze satellite images of declassified pictures of bombed sites in Afghanistan and Iraq in the context of the American policy that limits access to satellite images due to U.S. national security interests, as well as discussing some of the controversy surrounding the use of Google Earth.
Her talk is in the Cambridge Room of the Holiday Inn, 111 Cooper Street in downtown Ottawa at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 4. It is free and open to media and the public.
Parks is well known for her many media arts projects and books. She is working on three new books, including one called Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures. She is also director of the Global Cultures in Transition research initiative for the Center for Information Technology and Society at UCSB.
More information is available by emailing Melissa_Aronczyk@carleton.ca.
Parks will analyze satellite images of declassified pictures of bombed sites in Afghanistan and Iraq in the context of the American policy that limits access to satellite images due to U.S. national security interests, as well as discussing some of the controversy surrounding the use of Google Earth.
Her talk is in the Cambridge Room of the Holiday Inn, 111 Cooper Street in downtown Ottawa at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 4. It is free and open to media and the public.
Parks is well known for her many media arts projects and books. She is working on three new books, including one called Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries and Cultures. She is also director of the Global Cultures in Transition research initiative for the Center for Information Technology and Society at UCSB.
More information is available by emailing Melissa_Aronczyk@carleton.ca.