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The Participatory Decepticon

Posted on June 10, 2008

What happens when not only have the tools of documenting the world become democratized, so too have the tools for manipulating our interpretations of reality?The rise of technologies of ubiquitous personal observation -- what I've termed the participatory panopticon -- has already begun to transform how we relate to each other socially and politically. The acceleration of mobile media creation capabilities maps to a growing desire by individuals of all ages and backgrounds to have greater control over their personal media technologies. These tools move quickly from dubious to ubiquitous, and...

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internet , mobile