GOOGLE’S CARS AND VISUAL RESISTANCE IN URBAN SPACE
DOI: 10.23951/2312-7899-2019-2-33-41
The article discusses how city residents react to the sight of Google cars taking pictures for the use of the Street View service? The author notes that the vast majority behaves completely normal as if the Google car was not even there. It is observed that some of the residents of the Street View world wave in a friendly manner towards the camera lens, some of them smile or take selfies with the vision machine passing by. However, there are some that opt for spontaneous gestures displaying displeasure at the presence of a nosy technology in their everyday space. The author creates an introductory typology of the methods of visual resistance and then proceeds with an analysis of specific strategies.
Keywords: Google Street View, urban space, vision machine, methods of resistance
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Issue: 2, 2019
Series of issue: Issue 2
Rubric: ARTICLES
Pages: 33 — 41
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