IASA's 55th Annual Conference

This session consists of 3 presentations and a joint Q&A with the presenters. The session contains:

➺ Tre Berney - Infrastructure needs in 21st century audiovisual archives (Short presentation)

➺ Shruti Nagpal - Datafication, Surveillance and New Media Archive in Academia: A Study based in New Delhi, India (Long presentation)

**Abstracts:**


➺ Infrastructure needs in 21st century audiovisual archives
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Tre Berney (Short presentation)
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Over 90% of the data that exists today was created within the last decade. Audiovisual archives maintain that same challenges they have always had, yet archives aren’t prepared for the onslaught of content being produced. It is increasingly how we communicate and consume information. In order to inhabit this digital world, we must reframe how we think of audiovisual content. It is created, managed, preserved, and made accessible in the context of a data-driven world. This talk will focus on core components of infrastructure that are required to continue our work on capturing and maintaining our shared record in a multi-disciplinary world. It will also raise questions around perception of audiovisual materials in the field of research data management. There is a coming convergence in best practices from archives to research data management that should be explored.

➺ Datafication, Surveillance and New Media Archive in Academia: A Study based in New Delhi, India
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Shruti Nagpal (Long presentation)
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The proposed paper explores the New Media technology in urban classrooms and the advancement in surveillance archives in academic infrastructures. While discussing the nature, context and application of surveillance devices, the study explores CCTV cameras, biometric and face recognition sensors and id-card tapping devices for monitoring attendance and regularity. The paper questions the archives created out of the codified digital existence of teachers, students, subjects in academia and the archiving of such data and the audio-visual material recorded in CCTV cameras for automated data management processes. Exploring the technological integration with academic culture, the study documents the changes in the dynamics of interaction in educational campuses and use of Educational ERP software for recording attendance, scores, monitoring and tracking of the archival database. The paper questions the privacy, transparency, and integrity of communication using such surveillance capitalist devices. Stemming from the theoretical interventions of Donna Haraway (1991), the research tries to understand if there is a link in the rapid privatization of education, datafication and frenzy technical acceleration in academia. While studying the Surveillance culture in private corporate regimes in academia, the paper looks at the nature and usage of such private archives.