Sousveillance

[Wilson Gray]

Larry, you devil, you!

-Wilson

On 12/11/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 2:11 PM -0500 12/11/06, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >When did this arrive?  It seems to have been
> >talked about in Wikipedia in March 2004.
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> As long as it's not confused with upskirt hidden cam practices...
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> LH
>
> >From another list:
> >>Surveillance, from the French for "watching
> >>over," refers to the monitoring of people by
> >>some higher authority — the police, for
> >>insttance. Now there's sousveillance, or
> >>"watching from below." It refers to the reverse
> >>tactic: the monitoring of authorities
> >>(<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/tony_blair/index.html?inline=nyt-per>Tony
> >>Blair, for instance) by informal networks of
> >>regular people, equipped with little more than
> >>cellphone cameras, video blogs and the desire to
> >>remain vigilant against the excesses of the powers that be.
> >><http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section3b.t-3.html>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section3b.t-3.html
> >
> >Joel
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