Thursday, October 30, 2008



Sousveillance as well as inverse surveillance are terms coined by Steve Mann to describe the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity, typically by way of small portable or wearable recording devices that often stream continuous live video to the Internet. Steve provided us with a means to reverse the panopticon. Instead of one eye watching over the masses, we now have a vigilant collective armed with cameraphones aimed straight at the tower.

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