{"id":4388,"date":"2018-03-07T16:51:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T16:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2018-03-07T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:03:20","slug":"response2-marcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/response2-marcd\/","title":{"rendered":"Response 2 MarcD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Mann’s Wearcam<\/em> and Shooting Back<\/em>:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wearcam<\/em> and Shootingback<\/em> are inventions that retrace snippets of one’s daily physical life.\u00a0 \u00a0They may have been considered outlandish and ultra modern but are quickly becoming the new norm of humans’ desire or need to video the events of their lives.\u00a0 These are technologies that go further than digital cameras, Go Pro’s, and dashcams in that they are\u00a0hands-free, some are\u00a0wearable, and can perform all three\u00a0functions of recording, processing, and transmitting.\u00a0 Instead of writing in a journal or logging one’s events in writing, these inventions provide for daily self-surveillance of activities or events, kind of a broader technology to Ashley D’s app that logs purchases for a day, honing in on one specific aspect of daily life.\u00a0 The kinds of self created by these technologies can be self-reflective at the least and\u00a0narcissistic at the most, being\u00a0that a lot of video footage is used to log one’s day as well as the time it takes to watch them (unless a time-lapse program is used) and the focus seems to be on one’s self.\u00a0 Another possible self could be the defensive self.\u00a0 The saying ‘the best defense is a good offense” applies to war and daily life and with the proliferation of video cameras one must be equally armed if falsely\u00a0accused of something like running a red\u00a0light\u00a0or theft or something.<\/p>\n

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Mary Flanagan’s Phage<\/em>:<\/u><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Phage<\/em> is a computer program that retraces snippet’s of one’s daily digital life.\u00a0 By scanning through one’s personal hard drive Phage displays in a mystifying, floating, 3D image pieces of websites visited, words used in emails, pictures downloaded, etc.\u00a0 Phage<\/em> seems\u00a0similar to one sleeping at night, when pieces of one’s day and memories could become convoluted into one dream.\u00a0 Similar, but kind of opposite to\u00a0Annie H.’s idea of logging random, creative ideas as they come up on to a website, Phage<\/em> logs some sources of inspiration people get by looking at old photos or reading the internet or emails.\u00a0 Both are put in a digital way to log random pieces of information like photo’s, words, and ideas.\u00a0 Phage<\/em> creates a self that emphasizes the mind\/tech connection that most of us have today.<\/div>\n
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Both Mann’s and Flanagan’s technologies reflect most members of modern day society in terms of how technology can be logged and surveyed throughout a typical day and how much our daily lives are captured in images and video’s.\u00a0 With the exception of people living in the most remote parts of the world,\u00a0 everyone, even the very poor could have access as public computers and personal cell phones have increased storage and functions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Mann’s Wearcam and Shooting Back: \u00a0 Wearcam and Shootingback are inventions that retrace snippets of one’s daily physical life.\u00a0 \u00a0They may have been considered outlandish and ultra modern but are quickly becoming the new norm of humans’ desire or need to video the events […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-response2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4395,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions\/4395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}