SADproject.tv Lessons learned from a social media system to raise surveillance awareness. Alexander Kraicsich, Sarah Naber Peter Purgathofer Sylvia Purgathofer-Müller
May 26, 2015
SADproject.tvLessons learned from a social media
system to raise surveillance awareness.
Alexander Kraicsich, Sarah NaberPeter Purgathofer
Sylvia Purgathofer-Müller
»Surveillance« defined as cameras watching over public spaces
Cameras can legally be operated by administration/executive...
...or by certain hi-risk venues like banks, juwelry stores, etc.
sometimes cameras are operated without legal basis
some cameras are operated by unknown entities
Brin’s corollary to Moore’s Law: The cameras will get smaller, cheaper, more numerous and more mobile
every year.
Accelerometer
GPS/aGPS
Gyroscope
WiFi location DBs
Smartphones come with an array of location sensing technology
social media overpublishing
Social media oversharing on the rise (work in progress by matt mckeon: http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/)
Gesellschaftliche Spannungsfelder der InformatikPeter Purgathofer, Sommersemester 2010
2 Verletzlichkeit der Informationsgesellschaft 12. April 2010
mandatory 1st year course for all informatics bachelor students
Students had to tweet all cameras they encountered within 24h
Prototype visualisation of camera locations & trails
First version of SADproject.tv web page
Easing the process of sousveillance in the face of surveillance
First version of SADproject.tv web page
submitted to prix ars electronica 2011 – without success
Success or Failure?
Download statistics of the iPhone app
Success or Failure?
Download statistics of the iPhone app
Stagnating camera count
All activity finally stopped at 841 cameras :-(
Observations
› too much competition in social media space
› individual contributors, but no community
› too little incentive after initial »aha«-effect
› gamification too superficial
› mobile app slow, buggy, too complicated
› Sarah & Alex finish studies, leave uni
though still committed to the project
Redesign/relaunch
› Paper acceptance at CeDEM revives project
› Ars Electronica invites us to resubmit the project 2012
› Part of Ars Electronica Center exhibition »Out Of Control«
»OUT OF CONTROL - What the Internet Knows about You«
future plans
»Law/norm-gap«
AWARENESS
INDIVIDUAL ACTIVISM
GROUP ACTIVISM
DB OF CCTV CAMS
MAP
SOCIAL MEDIA
GAME(S)
Immediate plans
› Materials for teachers who come to Ars Electronica Center
› QR-code generator
› facebook-game based on the camera database
› Implement oversharing »Aha!« moments
› Refine user exerience and interaction
bildquellen: (cc) flickr user »stommy«: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stommy/6287598526/SAD user »kampf_frettchen«, tagged on April 30, 2012, 9:42 p.m. via mobile app(cc) flickr user »cabbit«: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cabbit/3366186067/(cc) sarah naber & alexander kraicsich, 2011SAD user loki, tagged on July 3, 2011, 5:14 p.m. via websiteSAD user martin, tagged on May 4, 2011, 12:45 a.m. via website(cc) Ars Electronica, 2011 & 2012(c) twitter.com
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