{"id":352,"date":"2009-07-09T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T15:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/09\/visibility-of-urban-electronics\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T15:03:21","slug":"visibility-of-urban-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/09\/visibility-of-urban-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"Visibility of urban electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not really in the field of &#8216;mobile media&#8217; but here&#8217;s an observation <a href=\"http:\/\/liftlab.com\/think\/nova\">Nicolas Nova<\/a>-style. While being on holiday in France recently I saw these entrance ports in French warehouse chain Auchan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-06-24-17-09-35001-50.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-06-24-17-09-35001-50-tm.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"2009-06-24_17-09-35001_50.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder why Auchan made these anti-theft ports transparant? Possibly the visibility of the technology behind this form of surveillance makes people even less inclined to steal stuff..? (&#8220;It looks serious so it will surely work well, I&#8217;d better watch out..&#8221;). Anyhow, transparency is one possible way to visualize the omnipresence of informational devices in urban spaces. Rather than faced with an opaque &#8216;black box&#8217;, we now get a better sense of what networked\/informational machines are operational in our presence. I can just imagine these things being built to go off with a spectacular light show when someone tries to steal anything, just to increase public attention and shaming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-06-24-17-08-08001-35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/2009-06-24-17-08-08001-35-tm.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" alt=\"2009-06-24_17-08-08001_35.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really in the field of &#8216;mobile media&#8217; but here&#8217;s an observation Nicolas Nova-style. While being on holiday in France recently I saw these entrance [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/09\/visibility-of-urban-electronics\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,39,78],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-hybrid-space","tag-mall","tag-surveillance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-5G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","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=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}