sousveillance a state/practise/artefact of subverted surveillance, bottom-up surveillance of structures by individuals Mentions “today sousveillance is an intrinsic element of everyday media-technological landscape and strategies of tech-corporations benefiting from the content from sousveillance practices” (Smolicki, 2017) “the tactical, disobedient and empowering quality of sousveillance was enabled precisely by the independence from the mechanisms of the dominant frameworks” (Smolicki, 2017) “the practice of sousveillance might now be said to have irreversibly saturated the everyday life of societies, at least those with a high degree of technological pervasiveness.” (Smolicki, 2017) “[life-logging services] can be seen as modes of such a commodified sousveillance, in which the subversive and disobedient qualities are significantly tamed.” (Smolicki, 2017) (see for instance Sonvilla-Weiss, 2008)” (Smolicki, 2017) “arguably, sousveillance has originally been conceived as a practice aiming to make oneself visible to the surveilling gaze of the system, but on one’s own terms and from the perspective of a singular position” (Smolicki, 2017) “reflectionism (ibid., p.333), a tactical use of technology to confront authorities, purposefully recording their actions (and misconduct) to reveal their mechanics, motivations, or violence, and, in so doing, to balance the distribution of power. In this reading of sousveillance, technologies are incorporated into one’s existence to counteract the their hegemonic use by authorities who aim to control and discipline the society. On the other hand, however, he approached sousveillance as a practice incorporating recording devices into life as existential technologies, techniques of “self-determination and mastery over our own destiny” (Mann, 2003).” ⤴️ ...
privacy in public on Pinterest Pinterest commonly viewed as private, users unaware they’re posting publicly infrastructurally content-first approach the marketing to users that boards as uniquely yours whilst the technology functions for advertisers as a trend-machine and auto-market-categoriser means users often perform as if in private but for public consumption Mentions ‘Collectors on Pinterest act in the privacy afforded by a noisy, public environment’ - ‘Wedding Dresses and Wanted Criminals: Pinterest.com as an Infrastructure for Repository Building’ “on Pinterest, these two streams converge more seamlessly, thus blurring the line between personal and public.” - (Lui, 2015) Resources Lui, D. (2015) ‘Public Curation and Private Collection: The Production of Knowledge on Pinterest.com’, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 32(2), pp. 128–142. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2015.1023329. ^3f2c3a Ravn S, Barnwell A, Barbosa Neves B. What Is “Publicly Available Data”? Exploring Blurred Public–Private Boundaries and Ethical Practices Through a Case Study on Instagram. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. 2019;15(1-2):40-45. doi:10.1177/1556264619850736 ...