top of page

GUEST TALKS

tommycooke-bg-title.jpg

MEDIA & TALKS

SELECT PUBLIC AND MEDIA APPEARANCES

Expert panel participant (w/ Dr. Anthony Millar, Dr. Martin Pall, and Dr. Riina Bray) for Kingstonians for Safe Technology (K4ST) rally and City Hall Q&A, Saturday 21 September 2019

Global News Radio London, AM980, 6 September 2018 on Facebook security breach

Global News Radio London, AM980, 29 March 2018 on Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and Canadian privacy policy

Bell Radio Network, 1290 CJBK, October 2011 to January 2017, weekly expertise and occasional co-host on surveillance and privacy technology

CTV London, 22 october 2015, expert interview on the politics of fear and the ‘Ottawa shooting’

SELECT ACADEMIC TALKS

"Tracking Surveillance Meta... what? A reflexive stroll through interdisciplinary collaboration" with Chris MacPhee, Director of Operations, Centre for Advanced Computer – 21 June 2019, The Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar, 17-22 June, Queen's University
 

"The Cybernetic Governmentality of Apple" – 13 February 2019, SOCY 304 “Surveillance & Empire” instructed by Dr. Alix Johnson, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University
 

"A Day in the Life of Metadata" with Chris MacPhee, Director of Operations, Centre for Advanced Computer – 6 February 2019, Surveillance Studies Centre, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University
 

"A Day in the Life of Metadata" – 27 September 2018, SOC/POL 3387 “Surveillance, Security & Society” instructed by Dr. Benjamin Muller, Department of Political Science, King’s University College, Western University
 

"Visibility, Legibility, and Harm: a Day in the Life of Metadata" – 6 June 2018, Centre for Advanced Internet Studies, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
 

"Digital Privacy" – Summer School des Projektverbunds Digitale Gesellschaft NRW – Stärkung und Sicherung der Demokratie in der digitalen Gesellschaft 26 July 2018, Bonn University, Germany
 

"A Cybernetic Epistemology of iOS: or, how and whether to (re)invigorate ‘bottom-up’ digital privacy" – 6 June 2018, Centre for Advanced Internet Studies, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
 

"Surveillance and Privacy" – King’s University College, Western University, the Department of History – HIST4701E “Canada and the United States” instructed by Dr. Stephanie Bangarth, 7 November 2017
 

"Surveillance: Borders and Beyond" featured lecture with Tom Walters, Robert Osbourne – Ryerson University, The School of Journalism. “Making Sense When the World Doesn’t Teach-in”, 13 March 2017
 

"Noise and Surveillance" – King’s University College, Western University, the Department of Political Science – POL4432 “Culture, Technology, Politics” instructed by Dr. Benjamin Muller, 20 November 2016
 

"Surveillance and Privacy" – King’s University College, Western University, the Department of History – HIST4701E “Canada and the United States” instructed by Dr. Stephanie Bangarth, 8 November 2016

tommy cooke logo jan 2026 v6.png

©2025 Thomas N. Cooke. All Rights Reserved.

bottom of page