The Sensor Society is led by Mark Andrejevic, incoming Professor in Communications and Media Studies, Monash University. This theme explores emerging trends in digital information and communication technologies from a societal perspective. The implementation of technological advances depends not simply on engineering and technical innovations, but on the ability to envision and address the societal consequences that flow from such developments. As interactive capabilities come to characterize a growing range of objects and spaces, there is a tendency toward increasingly interdependent forms of connectivity as well as toward the automation of data collection, processing, and response. These developments have implications for the use of information and communication technologies in education, health care, security, the workplace, politics, and beyond. The “tableting” of the schools, for example, allows for enhanced forms of customized instructional delivery and the reconfiguration of classroom relations, while also generating large amounts of data about students in ways that can raise privacy concerns (not least because of an increasing reliance upon commercial educational platforms).

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