{"id":219,"date":"2007-01-10T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2007\/01\/how-ubiquitous-media-will-change-our-lives.html"},"modified":"2007-01-10T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T13:25:00","slug":"how-ubiquitous-media-will-change-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/how-ubiquitous-media-will-change-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"How ubiquitous media will change our lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Gumbel eloquently analyzes the implications of ubiquitous media in this <a href=\"https:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/science_technology\/article2110652.ece\">essay in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Independent<\/span><\/a>. Already, citizen media is roiling the law enforcement world as crimes &#8211; and police responses to them &#8211; are captured on camera phones. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/14\/AR2006081400589.html\">George Allen&#8217;s &#8220;macaca&#8221; comments<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9sEUIZsmTOE\">Michael Richards&#8217; racist heckler-baiting<\/a>, indiscretions are no longer secrets and they can change lives. This is still a nascent trend but it will become much bigger as the technology spreads. There&#8217;ll be a billion camera phones worldwide in a few years.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to scroll to the end of Gumbel&#8217;s essay for a nice list of viral phenomena from 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Gumbel eloquently analyzes the implications of ubiquitous media in this essay in The Independent. Already, citizen media is roiling the law enforcement world as crimes &#8211; and police responses to them &#8211; are captured on camera phones. From George &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/how-ubiquitous-media-will-change-our-lives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7,33],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-3x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}