Kelly Gates
Assistant Professor
Book in Progress
Our Biometric Future: The Pursuit of Automated Facial Recognition. (Under contract with NYU Press.)
Journal Articles
Gates, K. “Biometric Registration: The Liquidation of U.S. Democracy?” (Forthcoming in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.)
Gates, K. and Magnet, S. “Communication Research and the Study of Surveillance.” The Communication Review 10 (December 2007): 277-293. Abstract
Gates, K. “Identifying the 9/11 ‘Faces of Terror’: The Promise and Problem of Facial Recognition Technology.” Cultural Studies 20:4-5 (July/September 2006): 417-440.
Gates, K. “Will Work for Copyrights: The Cultural Policy of Anti-Piracy Campaigns.” Social Semiotics 16:1 (April 2006): 57-73. Abstract
Gates, K. “Biometrics and Post-9/11 Technostalgia.” Social Text 83 (Summer 2005): 35-54.
Gates, K. “Authorship and Identity in the Genome Age.” Information, Theory and Society 1:1 (2002): 41-55.
Gates. K. “Wanted Dead or Digitized: Facial Recognition Technology and Privacy.” Television and New Media 3:2 (May 2002): 235-238.
Gates, K. “On How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: An Interview with Paula Treichler” (with Marie Leger) Television and New Media 1:3 (August 2000): 355-367.
Articles in Edited Books
Gates, K. “The U.S. Real ID Act and the Securitization of Identity.” In Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security, and Identification in Global Perspective, eds. Colin Bennet and David Lyon. (Forthcoming from Routledge.)
Gates, K. “Technologies of Identity and the Identity of Technology: Race and the Social Construction of Biometrics.” In Race, Identity and Representation in Education (2nd edition), eds. Cameron McCarthy, Warren Crichlow, Greg Dimitriadis, and Nadine Dolby, 59-71. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Gates, K., Leger, M., and McGee, D. “Public Health Message Audiences” and “Pharmaceutical Advertising: Drug Dealing Direct to Consumer.” In Television Studies, ed. Toby Miller, 84-86. London: British Film Institute, 2002.
Book Reviews
Review of Joseph Turow’s Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. In Surveillance and Society 4:3 (June 2007). Available online at: http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/criminaljustice.htm.
Other Periodical Publications
Gates, K. “Biometrics and Access Control in the Digital Age.” NACLA Report on the Americas 39:5 (March/April 2006): 35-40.