Browsing by Author "Blevins, Asa"

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    Legal and Ethical Implications of Mobile Live-Streaming Video Apps
    (ACM, 2016-09) Faklaris, Cori; Cafaro, Francesco; Hook, Sara Anne; Blevins, Asa; O'Haver, Matt; Singhal, Neha; Department of Human-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and Computing
    The introduction of mobile apps such as Meerkat, Periscope, and Facebook Live has sparked enthusiasm for live-streaming video. This study explores the legal and ethical implications of mobile live-streaming video apps through a review of public-policy considerations and the computing literature as well as analyses of a mix of quantitative and qualitative user data. We identify lines of research inquiry for five policy challenges and two areas of the literature in which the impact of these apps is so far unaddressed. The detailed data gathered from these inquiries will significantly contribute to the design and development of tools, signals or affordances to address the concerns that our study identifies. We hope our work will help shape the fields of ubiquitous computing and collaborative and social computing, jurisprudence, public policy and applied ethics in the future.
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    A Snapshot of Bystander Attitudes about Mobile Live-Streaming Video in Public Settings
    (MDPI, 2020-03) Faklaris, Cori; Cafaro, Francesco; Blevins, Asa; O’Haver, Matthew A.; Singhal, Neha; Human-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and Computing
    With the advent of mobile apps such as Periscope, Facebook Live, and now TikTok, live-streaming video has become a commonplace form of social computing. It has not been clear, however, to what extent the current ubiquity of smartphones is impacting this technology's acceptance in everyday social situations, and how mobile contexts or affordances will affect and be affected by shifts in social norms and policy debates regarding privacy, surveillance, and intellectual property. This ethnographic-style research provides a snapshot of attitudes about the technology among a sample of US participants in two public contexts, both held outdoors in August 2016: A sports tailgating event and a meeting event. Interviews with n = 20 bystanders revealed that many are not fully aware of when their image or speech is being live-streamed in a casual context, and some want stronger notifications of and ability to consent to such broadcasting. We offer design recommendations to help bridge this socio-technical gap.