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Thesis
Engaging with surveillance in public and semi-public spaces
Master of Science (M.S.), Drexel University
2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/cbe2-ds51
Abstract
This project investigates design strategies for the user to engage with surveillance in both private and public spaces. Surveillance technology has become much more prevalent in today's society with the advent of machine learning and ubiquitous computing. It exists in many forms: from the security cameras staring from every corner in the public realm, to the face detection algorithms, metadata, and smartphones that are track their users' every move. The freedoms of anonymity through obscurity, especially in urban environments, are vanishing. Artists, designers and social scientists are becoming more and more aware of this potentially problematic development, and the prescribed strategies may be categorized into two main groups: behavioral and technological. Behavioral strategies are best described as different ways to passively resist data collection: turning off location services on a smartphone, not checking in with social media, refusing to give out personal data online, or using less privacy-invasive technologies such as duckduckgo instead of Google. The technological interventions are best characterized as more active interventions that exploit technology's reliance on other methods to collect data: discovering flaws in the surveillance technology so that camera chips become overexposed, or wearing unusual makeup to confuse facial recognition software. Both strategies, behavioral and technological, may be used to regain control over individual privacy in an ever increasingly connected world; the goal of this research is to generate speculative solutions that use both strategies to formulate a plan to maximize privacy in today's digital world.
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- Title
- Engaging with surveillance in public and semi-public spaces
- Creators
- Marco Rathjen - DU
- Contributors
- Daniel B. Newman (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)Diana S. Nicholas (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- 83 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Architecture, Design, and Urbanism; Design Research; Drexel University; Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
- Other Identifier
- 9476; 991014632198804721