by averydame
- As social network and data-sharing sites such as Facebook increasingly rely on users reporting behavior to the company, the company itself intervenes to direct the social, interpersonal conflict (see Facebook’s flowchart for abuse reports, particularly social reporting). How do we think through the intersection of participatory surveillance and corporate understandings of “proper behavior”?
- While I was re-reading Albrechtslund’s article, I was reminded of danah boyd’s contention that “when people understand their position in the constellation, they can then achieve the very essence of what privacy is all about.” In her case, she’s speaking of the ways in which young people develop agency in managing their social network presence. The youth she’s speaking of are all reacting to the social impact of participatory surveillance. As such, there appears to develop a fine line between empowering exhibitionism and social censure. How do we think through the locational and spatial nature of agency and privacy in light of this? How mobile can a subject be within a panopticonic system?
- One of YouTube’s “selling points” has long been the ease and availability of its platform for disseminating video. This ease also makes it easy to “remix” a controversial video, layering differing narratives on top of it for public consumption (See the various videos of the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid released by both activists and the IDF, each one presenting a competing narrative). How does this ability for multiple people to visibly layer and then share their perceptions alter the dynamic of of viewing Butler discusses (where only “official” perceptions were given wide legitimacy)?
