protests, surveillance and the right to the city lucas melgaço vrije

protests, surveillance and the right to the city
lucas melgaço
vrije universiteit brussel
brussels
rio de janeiro
rio, 1904 – vaccine revolt
rio, june 2013 protests
surveillance
surveiller = sur + veiller
surveillance = care + control
surveillance = monitoring people in order to
regulate or govern their behavior.
it is an exercise of power through watching.
(Gilliom and Monahan, Supervision,
2012)
digital data
personal data
data
metadata
database
dig data
data double
ditigitization
personal data
metadata
database
big data
data double
rio, 1904 – vaccine revolt
rio, june 2013 protests
surveillance of crowd events
crowd events or mass gatherings:
the temporary assembly of citizens for
an expressed socio-cultural or political
purpose.
though disparate in nature, they all share the following
characteristics:
•
they involve a significant amount of individuals who have a
common purpose in converging (thus, pedestrian traffic on
public transit would not constitute a massive gathering);
•
they are of interest to authorities or responsible agencies;
•
and they involve the potential for physical violence
(perpetrated by any participating party, including those
charged with overseeing the event).
.
social sorting
identification
surveillance of mass demonstrations
forms of gaze
top-down
lateral
bottom-up
self-surveillance
panopticon (Bentham – Foucault)
George Orwell – “1984”
sousveillance
(Mann)
liquid surveillance
(Bauman and Lyon)
technologies and practices
video monitoring
social media surveillance
mobile and wearable technologies
big data
stakeholders watching and being watched
agents of social control (e.g. the police)
demonstrators and civil society organizations
bystanders
companies (e.g. telecoms)
media
academia
moments
before
during
after
visibility vs anonymity in public space
http://www.bruxelles.be/artdet.cfm?id=7340&highlight=manifestation
visibility vs anonymity in public space
visibility vs anonymity in public space
privacy and the protection of personal data
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