Forensic Architecture / James Bridle / Ben Grosser / Libby Heaney / Joey Holder / Tara Kelton / Yuri Pattison Privacy Techtonics is the first in a series of episodes broadcast by OTOKA, and directed by Candice Jacobs. We have collaborated with Candice on this first...
Responding to Alan Latham’s call to ‘talk about the nitty gritty’ and ‘fine grained detail’ of research, we wish to propose a Methods Special Section for Area which tackles the prosaic as well as more remarkable experiences of ‘doing’ research and analysis with and/or on digital messaging spaces. The embrace of...
The roll out of WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, which critics warn will lead to more data sharing with its parent company Facebook, received a blow on May 13 after German regulators temporarily banned the update. The regulators are now said to be seeking an EU-wide...
Research has shown that the circulation of digital content characterised as ‘extreme speech’ informs everyday public opinion. As a platform for private messaging, WhatsApp enables the circulation of extreme speech within particular interest groups, and in the format of text, memes and videos that can be...
India’s 2019 national elections are widely anticipated to be the “WhatsApp elections”. Against a backdrop of rapidly improving internet connectivity and rising smartphone use, the number of people using private messaging service WhatsApp has soared since its India launch in mid-2010 to more than 200m – more users than in...