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1. Pay Attention to the Mobile!-or-Why Camera Phones are Both Cool and Scary at the Same Time and Some Thoughts on How We Might Think About the Social Impacts of Ubiquitous Personal Digital Cameras Connected to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark C Donovan 11.16.04

2. Quickie Bio • UW PhD in Political Science • Focus on policy making • Director, UWired • Created the Catalyst program • Director of Mobile, RealNetworks • Launched the first mobile video services in US • Vice President, m*Metrics • Mobile research service

3. Mobile Phones . . . • Are at the center of an industry generating hundreds of billions of dollars a year • Are the world’s most pervasive computing platform • Are an increasingly important journalistic tool • Can be insufferable when somebody has a really annoying ringtone • Are a “terrorist weapon”

4. Mobile phones are Messaging devices: text, media, IM, voice Cameras . TVs . MP3 Players Web-connected information nodes Understanding Convergence • DEVICES • Better, faster, smaller microprocessors • Cheap camera optics and color screens • NETWORKS • Broadband wireless data networks • 3G/EVDO/UMTS • WiFi/WiMax

5. Follow the Money • The voice business is shrinking ($$$-wise) • Paid data services are seen as savior • Ringtones, videos, music tracks, personalized services, location-based services • Billions invested in networks and handsets to make this happen • Unlike the open Internet, these networks are private . . . mmmmm • But “consumers” don’t always do what’s expected of them . . . which is where thing get interesting!

6. Think About • What social & institutional norms and practices are/will be disrupted by mobile phones? • What are the personal and social benefits of mobile phones? Camera phones? • What are the personal and social harms of mobile phones? Camera phones? • How should individuals, organizations, and governments respond to the arrival of Little Brother?

7. ? Film-based Cameras 1900 Camcorders mid-1980s Digital Cameras mid-1990s Digital VideoCameras Late-1990s CameraPhones (Photos) 2002 CameraPhones (Vid Clips) 2003 CameraPhones (Live Video) 2005 Evolution of Image Capture • Cameras/video cameras have become • Smaller, more powerful, connected • Time from image capture to publication has been reduced to near real-time

8. On the Path to Ubiquity • 2003 • 47M digital cameras sold • 45M camera phones sold • 2004 • Camera phones outsell all other types of cameras • 2006 • Est 40% of all phones will have cameras • That’s around 600M camera phones Source: IMS Research , 2004

9. What’s a Camera Phone For? • Industry: “For sending multimedia messages” (MMS) • People: “Uh, not really” • Snapshots • Blogging • Citizen journalism • Crime fighting

10. Camera phones are personal surveillance devices connected to the InternetWhat happens when “everyone” is carrying around at all times a device that lets them record audio/video of their environment and broadcast this to the world?

11. Camera Phones in the News Student caught using camera phone to copy exam(AP, 5/12/04)SALINAS, Calif. - Cheating has gone high tech at Everett Alvarez High School, and administrators have the pictures to prove it. School officials banned cellular telephone use after a student was caught using a camera phone to photograph an exam and trying to send it to a friend Locker room camera-phone bullying on rise in Scandinavia(DMEurope.com, 4/14/04)The Norwegian Teachers’ Association, Utdanningsforbundet, has urged a total ban on camera phones in public schools as a way to combat schoolyard bullies’ use of the technology to pick on other children. Incidents of bullies taking pictures in changing rooms or swimming pools and later ridiculing classmates with the images, as well as other intimidating uses of the phones has become widespread in the country’s schools.

12. Camera Phones in the News Camera phones, internet aiding paedophiles – charity(Dmeurope.com 2/13/04)A UK children’s charity has warned of troubling growth in the sexual abuse of children online and via camera phones, with some kids being advertised over the internet by relatives and friends. Barnardo’s, a non-profit organization that works with vulnerable children and young people, has issued a report calling on the UK government to do more to stop electronic paedophilia.

13. Camera Phones in the News Congress moves on camera-phone porn (Reuters, 5/12/04) The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would outlaw "upskirt" photos and other forms of video voyeurism made possible by cell-phone cameras and other miniaturized technology. Snap-happy MLAs lead to camera-phone ban (CBC, May’04) Edmonton - The legislature has banned camera cellphones from the floor, after the speaker chastised MLAs for breaches of decorum. "In recent months, there's been the infusion in this assembly of cellular phones that also have cameras attached, and pictures are being taken," Ken Kowalski said. "That is an invasion of privacy, but more importantly, that's an invasion of the privilege of the members of this assembly. "That is not an acceptable practice."

14. Of Course it’s Not all Bad • Kidnapping thwarted in NJ last summer • Crimes in Europe solved (Finland, UK, Italy)

15. Questions • What social & institutional norms and practices are/will be disrupted by mobile phones? • What are the personal and social benefits of mobile phones? Camera phones? • What are the personal and social harms of mobile phones? Camera phones? • How should individuals, organizations, and governments respond to the arrival of Little Brother?