About

rune.saugmann.andersen@tuni.fi

Rune Saugmann is University Lecturer in International Relations at Tampere University, and Docent in Media and Communications Studies at Helsinki.
Rune’s research probes how visual and digital dynamics reconfigure security politics, and he has published widely on these topics. This includes how videos participate in constituting security events, image-based open-source investigative practice, art photography, and computer vision systems in security practice and autonomous weapons systems. Currently he explores using computer vision software to counteract surveillance.
Rune edited Visual Security Studies (2018), the first volume dedicated to visual security.

Rune’s interdisciplinary research has been published in leading peer-reviewed outlets such as European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology, Journalism Practice, and Security Dialogue; and in numerous edited books in media studies and international relations. He has published his academic videos in the peer-reviewed video journals Audiovisual Thinking and Sensate.

Rune is a member of the leadership in ICRAC, the International Committe for Robot Arms Control 

Tampere Visual Studies Lab

Docent at:

University of Helsinki, Dept of Media and Communications

Visiting researcher at:

Danish Institute for International Studies

University of Hawaii

University of Queensland, visual politics lab

IT University of Copenhagen, technologies of social order research group

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6936-8845 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=da&user=79sr6g0AAAAJ

UNDO – understanding nordic digital order
https://undo-project.info/
https://koneensaatio.fi/en/news/kone-foundation-awarded-grants-2022/#democracy

Post-visual security management
https://research.tuni.fi/visualstudieslab/projects/post-visual-security/
https://research.fi/en/results/funding/27204
https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/en/spsss

Colours in security practice
https://chromatic-security.tumblr.com/

Open source knowledge
https://research.fi/en/results/funding/83463

The speculative camera
https://research.tuni.fi/visualstudieslab/speculative-camera/

Violence detection and computer vision in security management
Francesco Ragazzi

Research initiative on computer vision, surveillance, and security governance.
Securityvision.io 

Research on visual politics, affect, and international security.
Jonathan Austin