CDN Lunch: Tyne Sumner on "I'm a dragon!: Surveillance as Play"
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Tyne Daile Sumner is a researcher, writer, and public speaker at The Australian National University (ANU). Her work focuses on the intersection of surveillance studies, digital culture, and the humanities. She explores how literary texts help us understand human subjectivity under conditions of datafication.
Tyne’s first book, Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance (2021), delves into the relationship between 20th-century American poetry and surveillance. Currently, she is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, working on her project titled 'Beyond Big Brother: New Narratives for Understanding Surveillance’. She is also President of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) and on the international Steering Committee of the Art, AI & Digital Ethics research collective.
