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The changing ethics of mediated looking: wearables, veillances, and power
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
  • Joseph Ferenbok, University of Toronto
  • Stephen Mann, University of Toronto
  • Katina Michael, University of Wollongong
RIS ID
107195
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Publication Details
Ferenbok, J., Mann, S. & Michael, K. (2016). The changing ethics of mediated looking: wearables, veillances, and power. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 5 (2), 94-102.
Abstract

Wearable devices with independent computing and networking capabilities change the proximity of people and visual information to self-presentation and self-perception. This article examines the disruptive effect that wearable technologies like the Digital Eye Glass present in documenting and representing the self in a surveillant world. We look at how the power relationships in self-presentation and self-interpretation are changed by sousveillant apparatus, and we explore how these practices of "looking" mediate the subject and power in the changing ethics and politics of human-to-human and human-to-computer interaction.

Citation Information
Joseph Ferenbok, Stephen Mann and Katina Michael. "The changing ethics of mediated looking: wearables, veillances, and power" (2016)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kmichael/630/