ART 80F - WEEK 3 LECTURE CONTENT
Video as Witness v.s. Video as Media
- Shift from information + documentation to protection + defense
- User at center of the platform, not necessarily at center of the video
- Shift lens away from recording individuals towards documenting agents of a system
VIdeo as witness v.s. Video as "Evidence"
- Video used to protect individual rights, not indict or charge
- Consider different potential sites of interactions with law enforcement or security systems
- Similar points of interaction, different potential spectrum of experiences
Intercept article on law enforcement use of private video as evidence
Joshua Reeves, the author of “Citizen Spies: The Long Rise of America’s Surveillance Society,” sees Axon’s interest in soliciting personal cellphone footage as part of a “disturbing trend: the increasing privatization of what has previously been a public practice.”
“This [trend] is happening in a million different ways, whether it’s people photographing evidence of crimes on Facebook or apps that allow you to take photographs and report other people’s parking violations. This is becoming more prominent, and more and more minute offenses are being drawn into this vast surveillance dragnet.”