SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Lupina Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Sociology & Legal studies, University of Waterloo
Research Interests
My research focuses on the implementation of digital surveillance technologies in response to social problems (e.g., police and public health surveillance). I am particularly interested in how such technologies are rationalized by various stakeholders, how they operate in practice, and the broader socio-cultural values and interests shaping their use. My postdoctoral research explores the adoption of integrated electronic health records software in Canadian long-term care (LTC) settings. I am investigating how this software, which uses artificial intelligence and global health indicators to generate patient assessments and care plans, is marketed as a solution to Canada’s ongoing LTC crisis and whether the technology responds to practical LTC staff and resident needs.
Select Publications
Henne, K., Shore, K., & Harb, J. I. (2022). Body-worn cameras, police violence, and the politics of evidence: A case of ontological gerrymandering. Critical Social Policy, 42(3), 388-407. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183211033923
Shore, K. (2021). Targeting vulnerability with electric location monitoring: Paternalistic surveillance as a mode of carceral expansion. Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 29(1), 75-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-021-09558-0
Shore, K. (2020). Questioning assumptions of de-policing and erasures of race: A rejoinder to Ariel and colleagues’ study of camera-induced passivity among traffic police in Uruguay. In B. C. Newell (Ed.), Policing on Camera (pp. 156-164). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429439759
Shore, K. (2020). The push and pull of going ‘public’: Barriers and risks of mobilizing criminological knowledge. In K. Henne & R. Shah (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies (pp. 141-151). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351066105