sousveillance

Noun

sousveillance (uncountable)

1. The recording of an activity from the perspective of participant in the activity.
   • No, you’re not always “the product” on social media; sometimes you’re the raw material. Or the employee. Welcome to “sousveillance capitalism.” […] But you see the flow of capital here: viral sousveillance proliferating in an attention economy that benefits large tech firms, further exploited by...2022 March 27, Katherine Alejandra Cross, “Why Is the Internet So Exhausting? Blame Your Crowdsourced Bosses”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2022
2. Countersurveillance, inverse surveillance.
   • This paper describes using wearable computing devices to perform "sousveillance" (inverse surveillance) as a counter to organizational surveillance.2002 September, Steve Mann, Jason Nolan, Barry Wellman, “Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments.”, in Surveillance & Society...
   • This study uses a critical thematic analysis to explore the comments left by those who viewed these acts of ‘inverse surveillance’, or sousveillance. Results indicate that YouTube provided a space in which alternative views on the Stokes Croft riot were seen and heard but the views of many...2015 May, Paul Reilly, “Every little helps? YouTube, sousveillance and the ‘anti-Tesco’ riot in Stokes Croft”, in New Media & Society, volume 17, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 755–771
3. Veillance by the masses, of the dominant entities.