SADproject.tvLessons learned from a social media

system to raise surveillance awareness.

Alexander Kraicsich, Sarah NaberPeter Purgathofer

Sylvia Purgathofer-Müller

»Surveillance« defined as cameras watching over public spaces

Cameras can legally be operated by administration/executive...

...or by certain hi-risk venues like banks, juwelry stores, etc.

sometimes cameras are operated without legal basis

some cameras are operated by unknown entities

Brin’s corollary to Moore’s Law: The cameras will get smaller, cheaper, more numerous and more mobile

every year. 

Accelerometer

GPS/aGPS

Gyroscope

WiFi location DBs

Smartphones come with an array of location sensing technology

social media overpublishing

Social media oversharing on the rise (work in progress by matt mckeon: http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/)

Gesellschaftliche Spannungsfelder der InformatikPeter Purgathofer, Sommersemester 2010

2 Verletzlichkeit der Informationsgesellschaft 12. April 2010

mandatory 1st year course for all informatics bachelor students

Students had to tweet all cameras they encountered within 24h

Prototype visualisation of camera locations & trails

First version of SADproject.tv web page

Easing the process of sousveillance in the face of surveillance

First version of SADproject.tv web page

submitted to prix ars electronica 2011 – without success

Success or Failure?

Download statistics of the iPhone app

Success or Failure?

Download statistics of the iPhone app

Stagnating camera count

All activity finally stopped at 841 cameras :-(

Observations

› too much competition in social media space

› individual contributors, but no community

› too little incentive after initial »aha«-effect

› gamification too superficial

› mobile app slow, buggy, too complicated

› Sarah & Alex finish studies, leave uni

though still committed to the project

Redesign/relaunch

› Paper acceptance at CeDEM revives project

› Ars Electronica invites us to resubmit the project 2012

› Part of Ars Electronica Center exhibition »Out Of Control«

»OUT OF CONTROL - What the Internet Knows about You«

future plans

»Law/norm-gap«

AWARENESS

INDIVIDUAL ACTIVISM

GROUP ACTIVISM

DB OF CCTV CAMS

MAP

SOCIAL MEDIA

GAME(S)

Immediate plans

› Materials for teachers who come to Ars Electronica Center

› QR-code generator

› facebook-game based on the camera database

› Implement oversharing »Aha!« moments

› Refine user exerience and interaction

bildquellen: (cc) flickr user »stommy«: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stommy/6287598526/SAD user »kampf_frettchen«, tagged on April 30, 2012, 9:42 p.m. via mobile app(cc) flickr user »cabbit«: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cabbit/3366186067/(cc) sarah naber & alexander kraicsich, 2011SAD user loki, tagged on July 3, 2011, 5:14 p.m. via websiteSAD user martin, tagged on May 4, 2011, 12:45 a.m. via website(cc) Ars Electronica, 2011 & 2012(c) twitter.com

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