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May 07, 2005
Sousveillance: Watching The Watchers
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Alex Steffen Jamais Cascio provides the term I need to describe Watching The Watchers:
[from
Worldchanging]
This notion of individual citizens keeping a technological eye on the people in charge is referred to as "sousveillance," a recent neologism meaning "watching from below" -- in comparison to "surveillance," meaning "watching from above." Proponents of the notion see it as an equalizer, making it possible for individual citizens to keep tabs on those in charge. For the sousveillance movement, if the question is "who watches the watchmen?"; the answer is "all of us."
I am going to have to rig up some technology to help me keep tabs on all the journalists opining on blogging, and I will refer to it henceforth as sousveillance.
[update: 12:59pm 7 May 2005: Jamais Cascio wrote to wise me up to the fact that Alex didn't write the piece referenced, he did.]
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1. stefanos on May 7, 2005 10:58 AM writes...
we have a magazine you can contribute to: go to http://wearcam.org/ and go under Tribes: sousveillance edition.
we have some ideas on the tech side of sousveillance and balancing it to a pervasive technology enviroment.
If you guys want to, we are trying to organize something for nyc's howlfestival. Not sure if you like NY, but maybe you can be one of our remote witnesses to some interesting expereinces.
Permalink to Comment2. Jamais Cascio on May 7, 2005 12:53 PM writes...
FYI, Alex didn't write that piece, I did. Alex and I co-founded WorldChanging.com in late 2003.
Glad you found it interesting.
-Jamais Cascio
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