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	Sousveillance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sousveillance (IPA: /suːˈveɪləns/) refers both to inverse surveillance, as well as to the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity (i.e.
		Personal sousveillance is the art, science, and technology of personal experience capture, processing, storage, retrieval, and transmission, such as lifelong audiovisual recording by way of cybernetic prosthetics, such as seeing-aids, visual memory aids, and the like.
		Even today's personal sousveillance technologies like camera phones and weblogs tend to build a sense of community, in contrast to surveillance that some have said is corrosive to community.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sousveillance (1898 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Sousveillance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sousveillance refers both to inverse surveillance, as well as to the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity (i.e.
		Even today's personal sousveillance technologies like cameraphones (additional info and facts about cameraphones) and weblogs (additional info and facts about weblogs) tend to build a sense of community (A group of people living in a particular local area), in contrast to surveillance that some have said is corrosive to community.
		When one or more parties to the conversation record it, we call that sousveillance, whereas when the conversation is recorded by a person who is not a party to the conversation (such as a prison guard violating a client-lawyer privilege of a prisoner), we call the recording "surveillance".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/sousveillance.htm (1218 words)

	The Transparent Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Brin with sousveillance "maybecamera" at the Association of Computing Machinery's (ACM's) CFP conference where such a sousveillance device was given to each attendee.
		Transparency is sometimes confused with equiveillance (the balance between surveillance and sousveillance).
		Sousveillance therefore, in addition to Transparency, assures contextual integrity of surveillance data (i.e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Transparent_Society (366 words)

	Inverse surveillance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But sousveillance goes beyond just inverse surveillance and the associated 20th Century political "us versus them" framework for citizens to photograph police, shoppers to photograph shopkeepers, or passengers to photograph taxicab drivers (Rheingold notes that it's much like the pedestrian-driver concept, e.g.
		Even today's personal sousveillance technologies like cameraphones and weblogs tend to build a sense of community, on contrast to surveillance that some have said is corrosive to community.
		Audio sousveillance is allowed in most states, and by Federal law, but audio surveillance is illegal in most states.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/inverse_surveillance (1248 words)

	Danila: Sousveillance - left or right? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since I didn't have much of an idea of what sousveillance is going to be used for, I couldn't really understand how it fit withing different parts of the political compass.
		To look at the sousveillance in general (not just at inverse surveillance), we can consider the deeper differences between libertarians/right and socialists/left (not the only dichotomic division, but let's tackle this first).
		The potential of sousveillance is utilized only when we can share the recordings with others, be it through glogging or something else.
	livingtomorrow.blogspot.com /2005/05/sousveillance-left-or-right.html (581 words)

	Steve Mann: Sousveillance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sousveillance (roughly French for undersight) is the opposite of surveillance (roughly French for oversight).
		Indeed, the world sousveillance foundation seeks to ensure that there is at least some sousveillance to balance recent increases in surveillance.
		Sousveillance can be a useful de'tournement (art of appropriating common objects or images from their usual cultural contexts and resituating them in an incongruous and disorienting fashion in order to confront, question, or challenge society's stereotypes or biases), but further research is required on how best to counteract the abuse of surveillance with sousveillance.
	www.chairetmetal.com /cm06/mann-complet.htm (3202 words)

	The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Keeping watch now goes both ways
		Using sousveillance, conference panelists said, police-brutality victims or protesters at a rally would be able to record illegal actions taken against them by police.
		And sousveillance practitioners using a restroom "might want to point their cameras toward the wall," Latanya Sweeney, a Carnegie Mellon associate professor, suggested somewhat puckishly.
		Sousveillance does not have to carry a political agenda, conferees noted.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2002240978_spyware14.html (723 words)

	Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution
		Sousveillance in a democratiic (or quasi-democratic) country is particularly important in times of overzealous governmental secrecy and propensity towards surveillance.
		"Steve Mann presents the notion of sousveillance as a method for the public to monitor the establishment and provide a new level of transparency.
		Sousveillance, not just surveillance, in response to terrorism, Steve Mann.
	diac.cpsr.org /cgi-bin/diac02/pattern.cgi/public?pattern_id=386 (222 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sousveillance
		Perspective when used in the context of vision and visual perception refers to the way in which objects appear to the eye based on their spatial attributes or dimension and the position of the eye relative to the objects.
		"surveillance" denotes the "eye-in-the-sky" watching from above, whereas "sousveillance" denotes bring the camera or other means of observation down to human level.) A neologism is word, term, or phrase which has been recently created (coined) â€”often to apply to new concepts, or to reshape older terms in newer language form.
		This has been the role of the press, but with its strong orientation toward positive feedback, the media has tended to focus on less relevant issues, which get an inordinate amount of attention.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sousveillance (958 words)

	Saturation.org: BB (P2P)
		Steve Mann coined the term, and a lot of other stuff too, in his drive towards cyborg by way of "wearable tech." The human camera is more or less where this seems to start, which allows all of us to record and transmit everything we see and hear all the time.
		But what the out-of-band sousveillance subjects (e.g., the police) are more concerned with is the kind of instant decentralized broadcast that is made possible by next-gen video camera-phones.
		Which is why there's surveillance, sousveillance, and -- watch this space for a boom industry -- countersousveillance.
	www.saturation.org /saturationblog/archives/001153.html (378 words)

	Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices to Challenge Surveillance (SMEALSearch) - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This paper explores using wearable computing devices to perform "sousveillance" (inverse surveillance) as a counter to organizational surveillance.
		Visible sousveillance often evoked counterperformances by front-line surveillance workers.
		The juxtaposition of sousveillance with surveillance generates participatory awareness of the ubiquitous presence and acceptance of surveillance in society.
	smealsearch.psu.edu /110251.html (111 words)

	apophenia: Secret Service follow up on LiveJournaler
		Sousveillance in the hands of the masses will not be used to challenge authority because most people believe in the legitimacy of that authority, whether it be corporations or the government.
		Sousveillance is rising, and the results are still to be determined.
		And Danah is in the right when she says that sousveillance can create marginalization, and in fact, there is an angry mob and persecution that can evolve from unbalanced sousveillance.
	www.zephoria.org /thoughts/archives/2004/10/28/secret_service_follow_up_on_livejournaler.html (1897 words)

	Smart Mobs: Sousveillance In Action At RNC
		Cryptome has an example of Sousveillance in action contained in an article about many of the potential NYC RNC terror/security/safety threats that are seemingly being ignored.
		The use of sousveillance in serving notice to responsible parties is actually very effective, e.g.
		One problem with "liability sousveillance" could be that the authorities could deny having ever received the warning.
	www.smartmobs.com /archive/2004/08/27/sousveillance_i.html (573 words)

	Reason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In order to see how sousveillance works in practice, I joined Mann in marking this year's WSD at Toronto's Eaton Centre (a large underground shopping mall).
		An ideal sousveillance operation consists of at least two people.
		They may have ignored Mann's sousveillance of their stores because they believed it was a means to facilitate a transaction (more on that in a moment), rather than a form of unauthorized monitoring.
	www.reason.com /hod/nh123002.shtml (973 words)

	Sousveillance Blog: Anne Waldman and John Giorno's dial a poem: pre-sousveillance art and historical context for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dial a Poemdemonstrates a historical perspective towards building peer to peer sousveillance networks with poetry as the backbone discriptive medium of what is happening to our world, and how technology is transforming us.
		This all touches upon Danila's comments and very accurate view that sousveillance is becoming a very important art form.
		Mann and Brin insist that Sousveillance is not political, and I agree that the incidental form of sousveillance is just that; what is captured on video or camera by chance, is just chance, but how the media projects the experience and plays it over and over, reflects a motivation.
	stefanospantagis.net /journal/archives/2005/05/anne_waldman_an_1.html (386 words)

	Sousveillance
		Surveillance means "to view from above." Sousveillance means "to view from below." On the day before Christmas, at noon, local time, all over the world, Deibert wants citizens to "shoot back" at surveillance cameras -- not with guns, but with cameras of their own.
		Participants are to head out, in disguise, to their favorite malls and public spaces, and photograph all the security cameras they find.
		Deibert hopes World Sousveillance Day will "raise awareness about the increasing pervasiveness of all forms of surveillance in today's hypermedia society." "A lot of people probably aren't aware of the extent to which they're being monitored," he says.
	www.mail-archive.com /eristocracy@merrymeet.com/msg00151.html (198 words)

	[imc-alberta] Fwd: Call: Gathering of the Tribes - Sousveillance Issue
		Sousveillance is one potential avenue towards achieving this goal.
		Sousveillance is as an inverse to surveillance, watching the watchers, and bringing the cameras down from the heavens, from lamp posts and buildings to human-eye-level.
		New media performance emphasizing the importance of public reflection on ubiquitous surveillance and sousveillence is encouraged, as well as essays, short stories, poetry and visual works that assist in defining the ideals of human centeredness in a mechanical and monitored world.
	lists.indymedia.org /pipermail/imc-alberta/2004-November/1116-tt.html (476 words)

	1 Emergent Democracy
		Sousveillance, French for “undersight,” is the opposite of surveillance.
		Examples of sousveillance include citizens keeping watch on their government and police forces, student evaluations of professors, shoppers keeping tabs on shopkeepers.
		All of these new developments are components that are being tied together with open standards and a community of active architects and programmers.
	joi.ito.com /static/emergentdemocracy.html (7553 words)

	Sousveillance Blog: CFP: Bradley Rhodes and his perspective on privacy vs. freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She was at the Sousveillance debate, but only bits and pieces of her comments are comming forth.
		This paper when given to persons after maybecam experiences, seems to be viewed very differently by persons depending on prior experiences with government.
		In New York City, the availability of migrants allows one to see that persons who had lived in totalitarian states, understand and experience the ideas of sousveillance and equiveillance very differently from persons who are likely to have lived in the USA.
	stefanospantagis.net /journal/archives/2005/04/cfp_bradley_rho.html (698 words)

	Lifesafety.ca: Inverse Surveillance: "Hierarchical Sousveillance" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Inverse surveillance, sometimes known as "hierarchical sousveillance" ("seeing from below" hierarchically) refers to the recording or monitoring of real or apparent authority figures by others, particularly those who are normally the subject of surveillance.
		Audio sousveillance is allowed in most states in America, and by Federal law, but audio surveillance is illegal in most states.
		The hottest topic on sousveillance within industry is "personal sousveillance", namely the recording of an activity by a participant in the activity.
	www.lifesafety.ca /documents/ls0005.htm (661 words)

	Watching Them Watching You \| Betterhumans > News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because December 24 is no longer just Christmas Eve, but also World Sousveillance Day -- a day when surveillance subjects are encouraged to give a little something back.
		Also known as National ShootBack Day, National Accountability Day and World Subjectrights Day, World Sousveillance Day is the product of an international coalition of artists and scientists that have decided to rectify the surveillance imbalance and reclaim public space from Covernment (Corporate + Government) control.
		Dissatisfied channel surfers, disparagers of the blockbuster film formula, public washroom advertising antagonists -- this is your call to stop being a consumer of visual culture and start producing it.
	www.betterhumans.com /News/400/Default.aspx (1055 words)

	Futurismic: Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to the grey lady, video taken of the protests at the Republican Convention in New York City have helped contradict official accounts of the circumstances surrounding hundreds of protester arrests.
		We used this example in to show examples of how sousveillance can balance the surveillance infrastructures operated by police and other officials.
		In the conference, we had 500 "maybecamera" dome bags, so each attendee could experience sousveillance first-hand, in ordinary day-to-day life during the week long conference and the time that followed.
	www.futurismic.com /2005/04/sousveillance-at-republican-convention.html (145 words)

	Reason: The Transhumans Are Coming! And they're promoting mito flushes, sousveillance, cyberglogging, and genetic virtue
		His response is "sousveillance", or "watching from below"; in other words, the watched turn their cameras onto the watchers.
		To demonstrate his aphorism that "surveillance and sousveillance get along about as well as matter and anti-matter," Mann showed the audience video of him talking with clerks and security guards in a department store.
		As he says, "sousveillance should never be prohibited in area that is undergoing surveillance." And I bet that when we all can wear completely unobtrusive video and audio recording devices, no one will much care—we'll just assume that we're on camera all the time.
	www.reason.com /rb/rb081104.shtml (1336 words)

	Sousveillance Blog: Eudaemonic's and the history of wearables: but its not wearables that are the question, but ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sousveillance Blog: Eudaemonic's and the history of wearables: but its not wearables that are the question, but existology!
		Jill Magid is very different, and displays true artistic conceptions of what sousveillance means and her work aesthetically touches upon the same warnings of Steve Mann, as well as the warnings of Aldo Tambellini, of a world of lost individuals.
		It is via education about these systems on a deeper level that will lead to true social concern: but increasingly, the augmented conferences are not only academic, and fueled by large corporate money, but also are creating the marginalization of certain artists.
	stefanospantagis.net /journal/archives/2005/08/post_20.html (304 words)

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