Transdiegetic information, eHealth and surveillance

Rilancio dalla lista ISKO Italia: Transdiegetic information, eHealth and surveillance, conferenza di Luciano Floridi, che si terrà a Bologna il 23 ottobre, al Dipartimento delle Arti Visive Performative Mediali (ex DAMS) in Via Barberia 4, alle 15.

Data is one of the few resources that is not only renewable and repurposable, it is also expandable and pervasive. As a result, we increasingly live in a world of information (infosphere). Borrowing some technical vocabulary from film studies and game design, in this presentation I shall argue that new Information and Communication Technologies are breaking the boundaries between diegetic information (i.e., information available within a given environment) and non-diegetic information (i.e., information available only outside a given environment), in favour of a transdiegetisation of the infosphere (i.e., information that can be available inside or outside a given environment in a dynamic way). I shall then discuss how e-Health takes advantage of the transdiegetisation of our space of information, especially through wearable applications, and how the same process may be subject to surveillance processes. The talk does not presuppose any previous knowledge and all technical concepts will be clearly and simply explained during the presentation.