Self‐Surveillance
Nathan Yau, Jodi Schneider · Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 2009
She follows emerging trends in visualization and the web.She can be reached at jschneider pobox.com H ave you ever kept a calendar, tracked what you eat or saved receipts?Simple data, like how much soda you drink, can tell a story: In fact, what you drink can tell several stories.Here's a more elaborate example, also by the same person: This kind of activity is what we call self-surveillance.What is Self-Surveillance?What exactly do we mean by selfsurveillance?It is essentially collecting data about your personal behaviors and surroundings to gain a better understanding of how you live and what goes on around you.People already upload digital pictures to Flickr [1], post what they are doing on Twitter [2] and share personal information on social networks like Facebook [3].What if, in addition to these more social