The Notifiction: How Push Notifications from Neighbourhood Surveillance Apps Can Create an Alternative Narrative of Place

Auteurs-es

  • Andy Fischer Wright University of Texas at Austin

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.MM.12.2.10

Résumé

Cet article aborde la tentative de l’auteur de rester connecté avec le voisinage de sa ville natale à Austin, au Texas et comment cela créer un conflit avec l’utilisation de la plate-forme de surveillance de voisinage “Ring Neighbors” pendant la pandémie. En se basant sur une méthodologie mixte fondée sur l’autoethnographie, l’auteur examine comment les notifications produites par cette plate-forme peuvent créer de potentielles nouvelles histoires sur son quartier pendant la pandémie. Alors que cette application est en théorie utile en montrant ce que à quoi les membres de la communauté pensent, ces notifications qui s’imposent dans sa vie quotidienne ont tendance à créer une représentation fictive de sa maison comme une “notifiction.”

Biographie de l'auteur-e

  • Andy Fischer Wright, University of Texas at Austin

    Andy Fischer Wright est étudiant en doctorat au département Radio-Télévision-Cinéma de l'Université du Texas à Austin. Andy a obtenu sa licence avec une double majeure avec mention en études des médias et en anglais et littérature mondiale au Pitzer College. Au printemps 2020, il a terminé son mémoire de master sur les implications socioculturelles des notifications push. Les intérêts de recherche d'Andy comprennent la poursuite des travaux sur les notifications push, les médias numériques et les études culturelles de manière plus générale, ainsi que tout ce qui a trait à la collision intime entre la vie quotidienne et les technologies de l'information

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2022-01-09

Comment citer

The Notifiction: How Push Notifications from Neighbourhood Surveillance Apps Can Create an Alternative Narrative of Place. (2022). Revue D’études Interculturelles De L’image, 12(2), 201-221. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.MM.12.2.10