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This article analyses the surveillance aesthetic of Hideaki Anno’s 1998 film Love & Pop. It is proposed that the film communicates the concept of “soiveillance”—a watching (veillance) that is of one’s self (soi). What underpins soiveillance is the paranoia associated with social surveillance (Marwick 2012), specifically the self-consciousness invol...
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... it with everyone, I really appreciate everyone's effort. But . . . I want to be friends forever." Breaking down, her friends comfort her and agree to split the money. This shot takes the form of a squeezed frame bracketed by two borders of black; a visual expression of Hiromi's inner self-consciousness and the tension she feels in this situation (Fig. 6). However, to viewers today the shot is striking because the image perfectly resembles mobile phone footage as it is recorded in portrait framing; the production of an extremely squeezed frame which in the age of YouTube has come to be known as "Vertical Video Syndrome." An atemporal reading of the film, by which the cropped image ...
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... it with everyone, I really appreciate everyone's effort. But . . . I want to be friends forever." Breaking down, her friends comfort her and agree to split the money. This shot takes the form of a squeezed frame bracketed by two borders of black; a visual expression of Hiromi's inner self-consciousness and the tension she feels in this situation (Fig. 6). However, to viewers today the shot is striking because the image perfectly resembles mobile phone footage as it is recorded in portrait framing; the production of an extremely squeezed frame which in the age of YouTube has come to be known as "Vertical Video Syndrome." An atemporal reading of the film, by which the cropped image ...
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Surveillance-infused forms of algorithmic discrimination are beginning to capture public and scholarly attention. While this is an encouraging development, this editorial questions the parameters of this emerging discussion and cautions against algorithmic fetishism. I characterize algorithmic fetishism as the pleasurable pursuit of opening the black box, discovering the code hidden inside, exploring its beauty and flaws, and explicating its intricacies. It is a technophilic desire for arcane knowledge that can never be grasped completely, so it continually lures one forward into technical realms while deferring the point of intervention. The editorial concludes with a review of the articles in this open issue.
Surveillance-infused forms of algorithmic discrimination are beginning to capture public and scholarly attention. While this is an encouraging development, this editorial questions the parameters of this emerging discussion and cautions against algorithmic fetishism. I characterize algorithmic fetishism as the pleasurable pursuit of opening the black box, discovering the code hidden inside, exploring its beauty and flaws, and explicating its intricacies. It is a technophilic desire for arcane knowledge that can never be grasped completely, so it continually lures one forward into technical realms while deferring the point of intervention. The editorial concludes with a review of the articles in this open issue.
