Mischievous infrastructure: tactical secrecy through infrastructural friction in police video systems

Reynolds, CJ

doi:10.1080/09502386.2021.1895257

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“…There are many other modes of deathlogging that go beyond the accidental deaths under consideration here. The recording of officer-involved shootings on police body cameras has been the subject of debates about transparency and accountability for nearly a decade in the United States (Reynolds, 2021), where official public reports sometimes incorporate video of shootings to try and demonstrate what happened during violent altercations with police (Lum et al, 2019; McDonald and Bachelder, 2017). While they do not always involve GoPros specifically, mass shooters have also used wearable cameras or smartphones to document and distribute their violent actions (Teague, 2015; Dreyfuss, 2017).…”

Section: A Matter Of Lifelogging and Deathloggingmentioning

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Deathlogging: GoPros as forensic media in accidental sporting deaths

Gilmore

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This article develops the concept of ‘deathlogging’ as a complement to the more popular ‘lifelogging’ to describe how wearable cameras record fatal accidents, particularly among action sports participants. The article situates deathlogging in a history of media and communication theory interested in the relationships between life and death, and in particular the concept of forensic mediation to describe technologies capable of documenting and reconstructing accidents. The wearable GoPro camera is a camera of choice for action sports athletes to easily record and share things like BASE jumping to gain audience views and capital in the form of sponsorships. Representative examples are discussed and analyzed to demonstrate how fatal accidents transform the value of GoPro footage from social-economic capital into forensic or juridical evidence to reconstruct accidents, make sense of fatalities, and, in some instances, argue for legal culpability. The article offers deathlogging as a concept which can be applied to a variety of recording situations with different kinds of wearable cameras.

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Section: A Matter Of Lifelogging and Deathloggingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deathlogging: GoPros as forensic media in accidental sporting deaths

Gilmore

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Mischievous infrastructure: tactical secrecy through infrastructural friction in police video systems

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Deathlogging: GoPros as forensic media in accidental sporting deaths

Deathlogging: GoPros as forensic media in accidental sporting deaths

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