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Detained through a Smartphone: Deploying Experimental Collaborative Visual Methods to Study the Socio-Technical Landscape of Digital Confinement

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dc.creatorSanchez Boe, Carolina
dc.creatorMainsah, Henry
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-01T11:39:01Z
dc.date.available2024-03-01T11:39:01Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe facial recognition software SmartLink is being increasingly deployed as an “alternative to detention” by ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), along with other surveillance technolo- gies such as voice recognition and electronic ankle shackles. Rather than being a proper “alternative” to immigrant detention, these tech- nologies have become an addition to the ever-increasing detention numbers, spreading confinement into immigrant communities and homes. These new forms of enforcement technologies constitute an understudied aspect of surveillance capitalism, as they are deployed with the active involvement of private companies with for-profit motives. This article draws on an experimental collaborative visual methodol- ogy enacted by an anthropologist, a design scholar, a lawyer and a participant with personal experience seeking asylum and being moni- tored through SmartLINK®. Together, we revisit visual material generated as part of ethnographic fieldwork on “digital confinement”. Using a walkthrough method, we proceed to conduct a collaborative analysis of Smartlink, its technological features, data generation, and cultural representations. Conducting research with someone who is constantly under surveillance through her cell-phone raises specific methodological and ethical issues, and in our article we call for par- ticipatory alliances and relational ethics when researching regimes of digital confinement.en
dc.identifier.doi10.14361/dcs-2021-070214
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21867
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.14361/dcs-2021-070214/html
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23215
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectFacial Recognition Appsen
dc.subjectImmigration Enforcementen
dc.subjectDigital Confinementen
dc.subjectCollaborative Visual Methodologiesen
dc.subjectWalkthrough Methoden
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleDetained through a Smartphone: Deploying Experimental Collaborative Visual Methods to Study the Socio-Technical Landscape of Digital Confinementen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2024-03-02T02:45:02
local.source.epage310
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleNetworked Images in Surveillance Capitalism
local.source.spage287
local.source.volume7

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