Crowdsourcing of Surveillance through Gamification Inspired by the virtual watchers project Burkhard Schafer – Crowdsourcing and cloudsourcing CCTV surveillance https://www.voanews.com/world-news/middle-east-dont-use/facebook-becomes-divisive-bahrain
The other day I went shopping in a garden centre. You know, one of those very large ones that require a map to navigate. Why I was there is of no importance; the fact of the matter is that I was there, and that I got lost. In my own –very human- hubris, I had decided to not follow the clearly laid…
Whenever I hear the term ‘social experiment’ these days, my mind immediately goes to this awful trend of various internet personalities doing increasingly rude things to random people in public and using the excuse of ‘it’s a social experiment!’ to justify their unacceptable behavior. This is of course a replacement for the equally loathsome ‘it’s just a prank. bro!’ argument. However! Despite…
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To tell you the truth, my appetite for discovering new music’s always been rather limited – I’m more than happy to listen to the same song over and over again until I inevitably get sick of it and move on to something else. Though my repertoire’s pretty varied – I’ll listen to most things, from Smashmouth to Beyonce – at the end of the…
The story of our lifetimes is how intentionally, by design, a number of institutions – both governmental and corporate – realized it was in their mutual interest to conceal their data collection activities in order to increase the breadth and depth of their sensory networks
Edward Snowden on JRE #1368
I’ll be honest with you, I have a thing for the nitty-gritty of controversies. The issue of privacy on social media has been the talk of the town, but what exactly does privacy mean to us in this post-digital era and how are we and the corporations we populate taking responsibility for our virtual homes on the WWW.
At the age of 20, I am a dedicated podcast listener. I remember trying to understand what the section “podcast” stood for in my dad’s earliest iPod Classic, going through mostly documentary and news-like radio shows at around the age of 7. As we know of them today, podcasts come in a variety of formats dealing with a large scheme of subjects-politics,…
Online harassment censors freedom of speech, how to protect freedom of speech and reduce online harassment without censorship?
I can hear you saying, ‘What a dumb question, yellow of course!’. One of my classmates asked this question the other day, which didn’t even make sense to me even after knowing the topic of the session. What was this question supposed to teach me? The answer choices were A) Green, B) Yellow, C) Purple, however, there wasn’t even another answer possibility…
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