The changing ethics of mediated looking: wearables, veillances, and power

Authors

Joseph Ferenbok, University of Toronto
Stephen Mann, University of Toronto
Katina Michael, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

107195

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.