In this essay I will be showing you how the convergence of the camera phone and social media has lead us to survey not only ourselves but others. I will not put too much focus on the origin of the camera phone , rather I will be writing on how social media and the camera phone has shaped us to review our pictures , and the positives that have come with the convergence of these technologies
Although the topic is under great debate, the first ever camera phone was created in May 1999 by Japanese laser printing company Kyocera. The company created the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, the phone had a full colour camera which could take still and video images that was integrated into the phone .The phone could sadly only store 20 pictures at the size …show more content…
“Surveillance is the coordinated and organized observation of someone in order to control or affect their behaviour” (Flew, Smith 2014). In a surveillance society we are monitored by a certain authority which most of the time collect data. Since the birth of the camera phone we survey ourselves and others through the act of taking pictures and recording videos which makes data acquisition substantially easier. It wasn’t until social media platforms came along that this was seen, social media platforms have made it incredibly easy to collect data especially because it is part of our everyday lives. Individual’s posts are being used to collect data and not by the social media companies but everyday users on social …show more content…
Sexual predators have utilized the substantial improvement in quality in the camera phone by taking inappropriate pictures without the consent of those being photographed , these pictures are called “up-skirts”- “a picture that is taken pointed up someone’s skirt “ and “down-blouse” – “a picture of a woman’s breasts taken as she is bending over”. “The United States has taken action by enacting the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act, which prohibits the videotaping or photographing of anyone who is naked or partially naked in situations with ‚reasonable expectations of privacy.‛” (Good, Moulton n.a). In recent years the camera phone has been used to take naked photographs or “nudes” which can lead to destruction of reputations, because people tend to forget “personal ‘live’ pictures distributed via the internet may remain there for life, turning up in unforeseen contexts, reframed and repurposed” (Dijck , 2008). Surveillance with camera phones has led to disruption of reputations which often leads to job loss (McClurg, 2007) and also the sexual exploitation of others which had led to the increase in laws protecting the privacy of
Although the topic is under great debate, the first ever camera phone was created in May 1999 by Japanese laser printing company Kyocera. The company created the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, the phone had a full colour camera which could take still and video images that was integrated into the phone .The phone could sadly only store 20 pictures at the size …show more content…
“Surveillance is the coordinated and organized observation of someone in order to control or affect their behaviour” (Flew, Smith 2014). In a surveillance society we are monitored by a certain authority which most of the time collect data. Since the birth of the camera phone we survey ourselves and others through the act of taking pictures and recording videos which makes data acquisition substantially easier. It wasn’t until social media platforms came along that this was seen, social media platforms have made it incredibly easy to collect data especially because it is part of our everyday lives. Individual’s posts are being used to collect data and not by the social media companies but everyday users on social …show more content…
Sexual predators have utilized the substantial improvement in quality in the camera phone by taking inappropriate pictures without the consent of those being photographed , these pictures are called “up-skirts”- “a picture that is taken pointed up someone’s skirt “ and “down-blouse” – “a picture of a woman’s breasts taken as she is bending over”. “The United States has taken action by enacting the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act, which prohibits the videotaping or photographing of anyone who is naked or partially naked in situations with ‚reasonable expectations of privacy.‛” (Good, Moulton n.a). In recent years the camera phone has been used to take naked photographs or “nudes” which can lead to destruction of reputations, because people tend to forget “personal ‘live’ pictures distributed via the internet may remain there for life, turning up in unforeseen contexts, reframed and repurposed” (Dijck , 2008). Surveillance with camera phones has led to disruption of reputations which often leads to job loss (McClurg, 2007) and also the sexual exploitation of others which had led to the increase in laws protecting the privacy of