public & privacy
*surveillance
-close watch kept over someone or something
ex)Etymology: French, from surveiller to watch over, from sur- + veiller to watch, from Latin vigilare, from vigil watchful
-technologies
Viisage & Superbowl XXXV
-surveillance model versus capture model
built upon visual metaphors and derives from historical experiences of secret police surveillance
capture model: is built upon linguistic metaphors and takes as its prototype the deliberate reorganization of industrial work activities to allow computers to track them [the work activities] in real time
-capture
linguistic metaphors
instrumentation and reorganization of existing activities
*surveillance ~ dataveillance
-dataveillance/spying
>carnavor
>echelon
>total information awareness agency (now the “terrorism information awareness” project, name change as of may 21, 2003 to mollify congress’ worries about intrusion of the privacy of u.s. citizens, headed by convicted felon (former admiral) john poindexter)
>officially ended in september 2003, but see Electronic Frontier Foundation’s update
*privacy
-definition
1.
a. the quality or state of being apart from company or observation
b. SECLUSION: freedom from unauthorized intrusion
2. archaic : a place of seclusion
*what are the connections between the public and the private?
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private---public---state |
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social | economic sphere ____|
*Lessig
-inefficiency
-architecture
-code
*digital media versus computer science
-digital media studies: some architectures (e.g., democratic ones) are best designed to be inefficient
-computer science: efficiency is almost always considered to be a virtue: efficient architectures are usually good architectures
