Category: Surveillance in the Simulation
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Solar SatTrack: Energy/Surveillance Final
Group William Fang – https://www.instagram.com/williamfty/ Surya Narreddi – https://surya.website/ Ryan Rotella – https://ryrotella.com/ Concept We want to construct an antenna that is powered by a Voltaic battery that recharges with solar energy. With this solar-powered antenna, we want to capture radio signals using a Raspberry Pi and Software Defined Radio (SDR) accessories/software and transmit them…
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Surveilling the Blockchain
The two readings on how AdTech, private data selling, and the government using these to leverage an unprecedented amount of surveillance unsettled me. I knew things were bad, but that really drilled down a visceral sense of where we’re at in the surveillance game right now. I may be a drop in the ocean but…
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Surveillance Capitalism and Me
Prompt Pay attention to all of the ads you receive online. Pick 3 and research how they were served to you. How might they have identified you? What ad network do they come from? How does the bidding process work? Instagram Ad Examination In my internet experience, I have either become numb to the ads…
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Worker Surveillance and BaBump
P5 sketch Inspired by the topic of worker surveillance and the inefficacy of hiding: https://editor.p5js.org/ryrotella/sketches/SXoeb5_Jl Prompt Pick a surveillance art artwork either discussed or that you find, and review it. Discuss the methods and technologies used. Does it have an argument or a point of view? If so, how effective is it? Extra cred: reach…
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Requests
Coming into the Requests assignment, I feel pretty numb about being surveilled. As someone who’s been “online” and an active user of social media for almost a decade, I already have an awareness that I’m being tracked. I’ve always balanced out any anxiety of being tracked with the knowledge that my data is a drop…
