[Air-l] theory to explain plazes.com?

[Miguel Afonso Caetano]

Hi, Ulla.

Through Trebor Scholz in the IDC mailing-list I've found a
presentation made by the futurulogist Jamais Cascio which is available
here (http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002651.html; and here
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail375.html).

In that presentation, Cascio explains the meaning of the participatory
panopticon, a term he has coined to refer to the concept of widespread
and ubiquituous "sousveillance" where every bit of information about
every citizen is being permanently recorded and made accessible to
everyone else. It might sound like the regular talk of a pundit, but
he delves deep into this scenario and males plausible assumptions. It
might be of some interest.

i also recommend checking out what Nathan Lovejoy has been writing in
Swarming Media (http://www.swarmingmedia.com/) about the redefinition
of privacy and control in the age of Web 2.0 and pervasive social
networks, He analyses the dissolution of fixed and stable identities
by way of tags, folksonomies and other types of social classification
seen in MySpace and Del.ici.ous through the lens of Foucault and
Negri's writings.

Best Regards,


-- 
Miguel Caetano

http://remixtures.com