Panopticon
2014-10-29 21:05:46.722699+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
So a bunch of people have been linking to 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman (YouTube video, 1:57) a project of the Hollaback campaign to end street harassment.
If you're male, it's worth two minutes of your time, if you're female you've probably lived it, but as I watched it I realized...
This is a level of social awareness that wasn't technologically possible 30 years ago. To start with, you couldn't hide a VHS camera, let alone a Betamax rig. The idea of 10 hours of video edited down? Even with an A/B roll deck it'd be a long ass project.
There are definitely down-sides to living in the panopticon, but dash cams, cell phone cameras, projects like this: All amazing, and changing society in ways that we don't necessarily recognize, but I think are strongly for the better.
(Additional: Slate claims Hollaback's look at street harassment in NYC edited out the white guys.)