Langstone, Delia
Contact details
Position: Senior Lecturer & School Leader in Learning & Teaching
Location: EB 1.47
Telephone: 0208 223 6425
Email: d.j.langstone@uel.ac.uk
Contact address:
School of Law and Social Sciences (LSS)
University of East London
Docklands Campus
University Way
London E16 2RD
Brief biography
Delia Langstone works in the field of Sociology and Innovation studies and is Leader in Learning and Teaching for the School of Law and Social Sciences. She is interested in the social history of technological development particularly new surveillance technologies, privacy and the social construction of the individual as a data subject.
Teaching: Modules
IS1105 Innovation Technology and Society: theoretical perspectives.
IS1104 ICT and the economy.
IS3109 Surveillance, technology and society
Current research and publications
‘Myths, crimes and videotape’ (2009) in The myths of technology: innovation and inequality, Burnett, J, Senker, P and Walker, K. (eds.) New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Conference Presentations:
‘CCTV Rhetoric and reality’, Science in Society Conference Madrid, 11-13 November, 2010.
‘Silver bullet – grey town’ , CHORD Conference: The High Street in Historical Perspective, 10-11 September, 2008.
Other scholarly activities
Member of STIR (Society, Technology and Inequality) Research Group
Member of the Surveillance Studies Network
