Rocco Bellanova left PRIO in 2016. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Rocco Bellanova
Senior Researcher
Research Interests
Rocco Bellanova's research focuses on questions of privacy and data protection as applied to security and surveillance practices and technologies.
Rocco has recently completed a PhD in Brussels, at the Centre de Recherche en Science Politique (CReSPo) of the Université Saint-Louis and at the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His doctorate analyzes the powers and politics of data protection, in particular in relation to the deployment of security technologies based on passenger data. His focus is mostly on the so-called Area of Freedom, Security and Justice of the European Union, and on its external dimension in relation to the United States. He has published on topics such as the body scanners, the EUROSUR project, the connection of DNA databases, the data retention directive.
At PRIO, Rocco is currently working on three EU FP7 funded projects: IRISS (on surveillance and resilience in democratic societies); ETTIS (on European security trends and threats); PACT (on public perception of privacy and security).
He is also member of the Scientific Committee of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection - CPDP international conferences, and he has been part of its Programming Committee for five years.
Languages:
English, French, Spanish and Italian
Education:
2010-2014: PhD on the Politics of Data Protection, at the Université Saint-Louis and at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2006: Research Master in Political Science of International Relations - Sciences Po Paris, France
2005: Laurea Specialistica in International Relations - Università di Bologna, Italy
2004 (one semester): Overseas exchange program at the Université de Montréal, Canada
2002-2003: Erasmus at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Lyon, France
Latest publications
All publications
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years
Journal Article in Security Dialogue
Smart Phones for Refugees: Tools for Survival, or Surveillance?
PRIO Policy Brief
No (Big) Data, No Fiction? Thinking Surveillance With/Against Netflix
Book Chapter in The Politics and Policies of Big Data: Big Data Big Brother?
Lost in Quantification: Scholars and the Politics of Bibliometrics
Book Chapter in Global Academic Publishing: Policies, Perspectives and Pedagogies
Surveillance, Privacy and Security. Citizens’ Perspectives
Edited Volume
Exercising Access Rights in Norway
Book Chapter in The Unaccountable State of Surveillance. Exercising Access Rights in Europe
Introduction: Surveillance, privacy and security
Book Chapter in Surveillance, Privacy and Security. Citizens’ Perspectives
Digital, politics, and algorithms: Governing digital data through the lens of data protection
Journal Article in European Journal of Social Theory
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Popular Article in Aftenposten
What can Robocop(s) teach to critical security studies? An “amateur” reading of surveillance, (dis)order, and critique
Conference Paper
Latest news
Call for Applications: PhD Course on 'Critique'
The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the PhD course Critique, to be held 28-30 November 2016. The deadline for applications is 9 September 2016.
Call for Applications: PhD Course on Societal Security
The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the course Societal security in Europe – a reassessment, 29 February – 2 March 2016. The deadline for applications is 20 January 2016.
PRIO awarded funding for a Nordic Centre of Excellence
The NordForsk board has decided to award one of the two new Nordic Centres of Excellence under the Nordic Societal Security Programme to PRIO. NOK 22 million have been allocated to the centre to be headed by J. Peter Burgess from the Dimensions of Security department at PRIO.
Successful Doctoral Defence by Rocco Bellanova
Rocco Bellanova successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles on Tuesday 5 May. His thesis is titled The politics of data protection: what does data protection do? and analyzes the powers and politics of data protection, in particular in relation to the deployment of security technologies based on passenger data. The PhD is awarded jointly by the Centre de Recherche en Science Politique (CReSPo) of the Université Saint-Louis and the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Call for Review Articles
Security Dialogue invites proposals for review articles that aim to inspire academic debate on specific themes, issues or topics through a solid summary, evaluation and discussion of diverse sources that speak to each other and to the author’s own work. As such, review articles function as ‘conversation pieces’: the selected theme and sources provoke discussion or should be introduced in a dialogue about security research because of their striking or unusual quality.
PRIO at Human Rights Human Wrongs
Communicating Risk in the Digital Age
How does the digitalization of communication impact the way we understand, communicate and act upon risk? How will the integration of digital technologies into our everyday life transform risk communication? Will risk management be enhanced or challenged by new public awareness of risk emerging through new technologies of communication? A team based in the Security Research Group will explore these questions through DIGICOM, a project newly funded by the Research Council of Norway's Societal Security program.
Latest events
All events
The Digital is Political, Isn't It?
Artificial Police Agents: Looking Awry
User-Generated Digital Content and New Forms of Risk Management
The Contested Semantics of 'Security' and the Curious Case of Privacy Impact Assessments applied to National Security Initiatives
Digital Communication and Risk in the ’Refugee Crisis’
LASIE: Supporting Forensic Analysts in Digital Evidence Retrieval and Analysis
Bringing the “Cloud” Down to Earth
From Innovation to Imposition: How Technology is Shaping EU Security Policy and Transforming European Values
Terror og risikokommunikasjon
Closed Sea: Protection of Borders, Protection of Migrants?
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