March 2011
9 posts
WatchIt can only be a matter of time before Foursquare incorporates this kind of advanced functionality (via BBC)
“Our premier Anna Bligh shed tears during a media conference. Our police...”
– Crisis Support | The Courier Mail
As 2011’s events assail us with imagery of atrocity and disaster, people are beginning to talk about how exposure to this imagery via social media, often without contextualisation or filters, can bring vicarious trauma. (Longer version here)
“0001- Online Persona Management Service. 50 User Licenses, 10 Personas per user....”
– Freedom of Information Act Support - RTB220610 (Archived) - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities
Procurement document from the US Central Command detailing purchase of software that permits creation of false personas in social media. But not on Facebook, obviously. Everyone there is real.
“Every human being does not only create many alternative time paths into the...”
– http://www.ariedegeus.com/usr/downloads/publications/oxford_futures_forum.pdf
“Technology offers the possibility of analyzing and directing the mental...”
– notthisbody: Fluid Fractal Organism Statement
“Both Pyo and McGee took photos of their victims and threatened to circulate them...”
– Rapists who attack in home face longer in jail - Telegraph
It’s worth remembering that the Egyptian police used videos of torture and degradation of prisoners in police cells to humiliate and intimidate both the victims and their peers, friends and families…
“Video surveillance is pretty simple. Point a camera at something, watch the...”
– Another frankly terrifying talk at The Next Hope 2010. mp3 of “Video Surveillance, Society, and Your Face”, by Joshua Marpet
“With the plethora of third party services that allow folks to post photos to...”
– Locational Privacy and Wholesale Surveillance via Photo Services, mp3 of a talk at Next Hope 2010 by Ben Jackson 