Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments.

Mann, Steve; Nolan, Jason; Wellman, Barry

doi:10.24908/ss.v1i3.3344

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“…The situation of personal media in networks is taken in a different direction with the notion of "sousveillance" (e.g., Mann, Nolan, & Wellman, 2003). For Bakir, this concept helps explain why people engage in using personal media even as their engagement enables their own surveillance.…”

Section: Personal Media In Networkmentioning

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Personal Media

Thumim

2016

The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects

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In critical scholarship, personal media tend to refer to media technologies and their uses by individuals rather than to institutions or companies. Critical research on personal media taken cumulatively shows how personal media are embedded in relations and discourses of power, in relations to authorities, in relations to peers, and in relations between groups (digital natives vs. other groups), and how they are important to citizenship. Moreover, personal media do not refer only to individual technologies and their use but are also, by definition, about sociability and the embeddedness of individual use in networks of various kinds. In short, critical scholarship on personal media finds them to have far‐reaching positive and negative implications, entwined with other kinds of influences and factors—social, political, economic, and cultural.

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Section: Personal Media In Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personal Media

Thumim

2016

The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects

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“…Indeed, in a few notorious cases of police brutality this ready access to recording equipment has allowed members of the public to turn technology against abusive and out-of-control o‰cers (e.g., the beatings of Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1991 and of Donovan Jackson, an unarmed black teen-ager in Inglewood, California, in 2002); in these situations and others, surveillance, scrutiny from above, is challenged by sousveillance, scrutiny from below (Mann et al 2003). However, in most cases in which recordings are used as evidence-and these are still relatively rare-law enforcement o‰cials as institutional representatives control both the means of recording criminal evidence and the products of such surveillance events, such as interrogations and confessions.…”

Section: Getting a Hearing: Entextualization In Listening And The Lawmentioning

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Captured on tape: professional hearing and competing entextualizations in the criminal justice system

Bucholtz

2009

Text &Amp; Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse &Amp; Communication Studies

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A growing body of discourse-analytic studies demonstrates that within the legal system, spoken language that undergoes entextualization is transformed in a variety of sociopolitically consequential ways. Through the analysis of a legal case involving the institutional entextualization of incriminating language-an FBI summary log of wiretapped telephone calls between suspected drug dealers-the article argues that practices of professional hearing and transcription on behalf of institutions of law enforcement systematically work to the disadvantage of suspects and defendants. At the same time, discourse analysts who intervene in the justice system as linguistic experts o¤er competing representations of suspects' and defendants' language rooted in their own practices of professional hearing and their own institutional goals. Legal entextualizations, whether weighted in favor of or against defendants, present dialogically constructed representations of discourse as monologic and objective facts in order to foster an ideology of institutional neutrality. This process allows legal institutions to ''create their own reality'' by regimenting talk through textual representation in order to promote their own authority and interests.

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“…from a position of authority) the former means to watch "from below" (i.e. from the perspective of the ordinary citizen) (Mann 2013;Mann, Nolan & Wellman 2003).…”

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The Threat of Algocracy: Reality, Resistance and Accommodation

2016

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EnhancementOne of the most noticeable trends in recent years has been the increasing reliance of public decision-making processes (bureaucratic, legislative and legal) on algorithms, i.e. computer programmed step-by-step instructions for taking a given set of inputs and producing an output. The question raised by this article is whether the rise of such algorithmic governance creates problems for the moral or political legitimacy of our public decision-making processes. Ignoring common concerns with data protection and privacy, it is argued that algorithm-driven decisionmaking does pose a significant threat to the legitimacy of such processes. Modeling my argument on Estlund's threat of epistocracy, I call this the 'threat of algocracy'. The article clarifies the nature of this threat, and addresses two possible solutions (named, respectively, "resistance" and "accommodation"). It is argued that neither solution is likely to be successful, at least not without risking many other things we value about social decision-making. The result is a somewhat pessimistic conclusion in which we confront the possibility that we are creating decision-making processes that constrain and limit opportunities for human participation. Abstract Abstract Introduction

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Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments.

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