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Cyborglogging with camera phones: steps toward equiveillance

Published: 23 October 2006 Publication History

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We present "equiveillance" as a conceptual framework for understanding the balance between surveillance and sousveillance. In addition to this conceptual framework we also present a practical embodiment of equiveillance in the form of a new program called "cyborglogger" ('glogger) that runs on most modern camera phones, along with a server architecture to support 'glogger. Finally we show how the 'glogger program and server architecture create sousveillance communities. Cyborglogger implements features that are ideal for sousveillance such as including continuous capture and real-time upload aimed at communicating personal day-to-day narratives of everyday experiences. The server architecture includes a custom-built community web site that allows a sousveillance community to interact, in real time, with 'glogs from various users of the system. Participants can use their camera phones to display output from other camera phones, resulting in peer-to-peer sharing of visual narratives. This real-time live monitoring creates a social commentary and discourse that runs parallel to the widespread surveillance already present in the world around us. Unlike surveillance, which often happens in secrecy, our tools for sousveillance are freely available and moves personal experience capture into the realm of the everyday, with an open forum for public discourse. We thus explore how users engaging in sousveillance with the 'glogger application provide a balance to existing well-established surveillance practices by examining the philosophical questions that arise from the new artistic practice of sousveillance.

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D. S. Pantagis. Sousveilance blog. http://sousveillance.org.

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MM '06: Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimedia
October 2006
1072 pages
ISBN:1595934472
DOI:10.1145/1180639
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Published: 23 October 2006

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  1. continuous archival retrieval
  2. cyborg logging
  3. personal experiences

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MM06: The 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2006
October 23 - 27, 2006
CA, Santa Barbara, USA

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