{"id":2015,"date":"2023-10-20T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/20\/the-micro-politics-of-location-sharing\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:27:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:27:53","slug":"the-micro-politics-of-location-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/20\/the-micro-politics-of-location-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"The micro-politics of location-sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vox had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/23742552\/location-sharing-iphone-friends-privacy-risks\">interesting read<\/a> about location-based mobile media and the question \u201cShould we know where our friends are at all times?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"633\" height=\"1548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_4229-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_4229-1.jpg 633w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_4229-1-286x700.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_4229-1-61x150.jpg 61w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_4229-1-628x1536.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With constant tracking and check-ins, our everyday lives have become hybrids of online and offline. In anecdotally describing how location-sharing has become, in the words of one of the respondents \u201cso, so common among basically everyone I know\u201d, the author addresses a number of pertinent issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of these is the tension between safety and security, and sociability and a sense of proximity. another is the constant negotiation over access to one\u2019s private life and whereabouts, and the little microstrategies and tactics involved in balancing this, an avoiding awkwardness, creepiness or downright pervasive stalking practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/20\/the-micro-politics-of-location-sharing\/\">original article on Vox.com &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vox had an interesting read about location-based mobile media and the question \u201cShould we know where our friends are at all times?\u201d With constant tracking [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/20\/the-micro-politics-of-location-sharing\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[339,338,337],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-always-on","tag-location-based-media","tag-pervasive-meia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_4229-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-wv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}