Sunday, May 25, 2008

5/21&5/23 Public&Privacy


 
 
 
"Keeping your privacy

By the way what is your think about your publical foam?"


Human-life is aways scared to privacy.
then, people has been invented to protecting our life


surveillance

close watch kept over someone or something
Etymology: French, from surveiller to watch over, from sur- + veiller to watch, from Latin vigilare, from vigil watchful


from surveillance to dataveillance

total information awareness agency
now the “terrorism information awareness” project
name change as of may 21, 2003 to mollify congress’ worries about intrusion of the privacy of u.s. citizens
headed by convicted felon (former admiral) john poindexter


surveillance model versus capture model

surveillance model: is built upon visual metaphors and derives from historical experiences of secret police surveillance
capture model: is built upon linguistic metaphors and takes as its prototype the deliberate reorganization of industrial work activities to allow computers to track them [the work activities] in real time


digital media versus computer science

digital media studies: some architectures (e.g., democratic ones) are best designed to be inefficient
computer science: efficiency is almost always considered to be a virtue: efficient architectures are usually good architectures


cookies

cookies are information that a web server stores on the machine running a web browser
–try clearing all of the cookies in your web browser and the visit web sites that you have been.



Agre on “elaboration”

“The captured activity records, which are in economic terms among the products of the reorganized activity, can now be stored, inspected, audited, merged with other records, subjected to statistical analysis, ... and so forth.”


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