Examining visions of surveillance in Oculus’ data and privacy policies, 2014–2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110416
Author(s):  
Ben Egliston ◽  
Marcus Carter
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Data Capture ◽  
Privacy Policies ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
A Site ◽  
And Control

Virtual reality – a site of renewed interest for major players in the tech industry – is increasingly one fraught with questions of data capture. This article examines the case of the Facebook owned virtual reality company Oculus and its intensifying privacy and surveillance risks with respect to the data generated and gathered through its devices. To explore the surveillance-centred structures of Oculus, this article examines Oculus’ privacy policies from December 2014 (the first version following the company's acquisition by Facebook), and October 2020 (the most recent iteration of the policy). In so doing, we examine these policies as sites of discourse, asking how they frame and afford power and control to Facebook, and position Facebook and Oculus’ surveillant aims and logics relative to societal concerns about, and regulations of, data.

scholarly journals Contradictions and power play in service encounters: an activity theory approach

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Eduardo Giraldo Oliveros ◽  
Susan Vaux Halliday ◽  
Maria Mercedes Botero Posada ◽  
Reinhard Bachmann
Keyword(s):  
Activity Theory ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Service Encounter ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Social Collaboration ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
A Site ◽  
And Control ◽  
Shed Light

We present a perspective on the interpersonal element of service in which economic and social collaboration takes place in real time: the service encounter. We view it as a site of conflict for power and control where social identities are anchored and collective meanings are constituted and reproduced. Our theoretical underpinning is taken from the Activity Theory (AT) to shed light on the service encounter as a contradictory, political locus of tension between providers and customers (internal and external) in the Higher Education (HE) market.

Interface as a mediating technology of organization

2019 ◽  
pp. 256-264
Author(s):  
Nishant Shah
Keyword(s):  
Critical Examination ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
A Site ◽  
And Control

The interface is a ubiquitous organizational metaphor. This chapter shows how the interface is discussed simultaneously but discretely as a noun and as a verb—as a site of encounter as well as an active controller of our digital practices, respectively. This duality produces a deadlock in critical examination of digital interfaces. The chapter proposes to break the impasse by positioning the interface as a process and analysing it through three sites of inquiry—thresholds, intentionality, and measurement—to enliven the politics of power and control in the organizational promises of the interface.

Power and control: transferring energy when there is work to be done

2005 ◽  
pp. 29-30
Author(s):  
Naveen Sharma ◽  
William Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Power And Control ◽  
And Control

International Human Rights Law and Blockade

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Drew
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
European Court ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
International Human ◽  
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction ◽  
And Control

The years since the beginning of the twenty-first century have seen a significant incursion of international human rights law into the domain that had previously been the within the exclusive purview of international humanitarian law. The expansion of extraterritorial jurisdiction, particularly by the European Court of Human Rights, means that for many states, the exercise of physical power and control over an individual outside their territory may engage the jurisdiction of human rights obligations. Understanding the expansive tendencies of certain human rights tribunals, and the apparent disdain they have for any ambiguity respecting human rights, it is offered that the uncertain nature of the law surrounding humanitarian relief during blockades could leave blockading forces vulnerable to legal challenge under human rights legislation, particularly in cases in which starvation occurs as a result of a blockade.

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