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Nudged to Normal: Images, Behaviour, and the Autism Surveillance Complex

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dc.creatorWentz, Daniela
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-01T11:39:01Z
dc.date.available2024-03-01T11:39:01Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractFor Shoshana Zuboff, affective computing is one of the key technolo- gies of “rendition” through which surveillance capitalism is realised (Zuboff 2019). An epistemic and technical condition of affective com- puting is the combination of facial detection and facial expression recognition, i.e., the identification of faces by computer vision and the process of measuring human emotions by identifying the corre- sponding facial expressions. While Zuboff criticises affective comput- ing primarily in immediate economic contexts, particularly in market research, this article is devoted to its application in an area that she considers “innocent”: the therapy of people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The focus of this paper is on wearables based on Google’s smart glasses, which aim at teaching social interaction skills to children diagnosed with autism. The paper critically analyses the role of images, their operational logics and datafication for this heterogeneous human- machine constellation and shows that these technologies are hardly innocent. On the contrary, the glasses are a prime example of what Zuboff terms “rendition”, and of the commercialisation of dis/ability in surveillance capitalism.en
dc.identifier.doi10.14361/dcs-2021-070213
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21873
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.14361/dcs-2021-070213/html
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23214
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.subjectAffective Computingen
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligenceen
dc.subjectAutismen
dc.subjectAutism Therapyen
dc.subjectBehaviourismen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleNudged to Normal: Images, Behaviour, and the Autism Surveillance Complexen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2024-03-02T02:51:23
local.source.epage286
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleNetworked Images in Surveillance Capitalism
local.source.spage265
local.source.volume7

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