We had the privilege of having Dr. Sharla Sava come in and present “I Shot Myself: Surveillance as Empowerment” in which she talked about the rising popularity of posting self portraits online as a “creative and strategic response to the experience of living in a surveillance society” as described by Aurelea. Surveillance was once mainly [...]
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28 March 2008
Surveillance
Dr. Sharla Sava, a guest lecturer for our CultureNet program, spoke to us about the transformation of surveillance over the years and how it has evolved from something that was once a “source of fear” to what is now considered to be an “antidote to fear”.
Surveillance is the process of monitoring the behavior of people [...]
10 March 2008
The Politics of Self-Portraiture
CultureNet Friday Seminars
Friday, March 14th – Dr. Sharla Sava (York University)
11:00am – 12:20pm in Birch 125
“I Shot Myself: Surveillance as Empowerment”: The expanding popularity of on-line portraiture via Web 2.0 platforms such as Flickr and Facebook is similar in many ways to Reality TV programming, serving as a creative and strategic response to the [...]
