What’s the visual equivalent of eavesdropping?<\/p>\n
I ask because having a definition for this as a concept will have increasing relevance as video becomes portable (yes, I know, only three more days until the iPhone [insert sound of noisemaker here] whoo, hoo…someone shoot me now) and more public. Indeed, just how am I to react to the glimpse of someone else’s pornography on portable DVD? Is looking at someone else’s downloaded episode of Battlestar Galactica<\/em> the equivalent of reading over someone’s shoulder?<\/p>\n I have to go with no. In order to read over your shoulder I have to make a concerted effort to both take in and process the information.<\/p>\n But in a world where we’ve all been trained to look at the moving picture, where indeed novelists have posited a world in which the television replaces human interaction (and people walk around with ear pieces constantly piping music into their ears so they don’t have to interact with others (Ray Bradbury was a god)), am I really to blame if I catch a glimpse of what you’re watching on your 9 inch LCD screen that you’ve lugged onto the subway?<\/p>\n Or are we going to go with the private conversation over a cell phone in a public place school of thought: if you didn’t want me to look, you wouldn’t have played your video where I could easily see it?<\/p>\n Interesting questions for interesting and increasingly impersonal times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What’s the visual equivalent of eavesdropping? I ask because having a definition for this as a concept will have increasing relevance as video becomes portable (yes, I know, only three more days until the iPhone [insert sound of noisemaker here] whoo, hoo…someone shoot me now) and more public. Indeed, just how am I to react […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}