Augmented-reality games physically claim private space through GPS coordinates

Evidence

The doorbell rang just as the warm water hit his aching back muscles. Had she forgotten her key? Shower interrupted, he threw on a tee and shorts and ran downstairs, opening the front door to a couple of teenagers waving their cell phones in his face. “Hey, you’ve got a Pokémon in your backyard. It’s ours! Okay if we go back there and catch it?” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 971

Categorization

• SEED: The Pokémon-go-as-eminent-domain framing could fuel an essay on how digital map ownership translates into physical trespass rights claims.
• XREF: Connects to the book’s earlier Chapter 5 treatment of Google Street View’s commandeering of space, and to platform-capitalism debates about private data from physical space. — connects to: Google’s mapping games served as test beds for expanding surveillance capitalism into physical space — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 472; Game design can deliberately nudge real-world physical behavior. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 982; Games like Pokémon Go serve as experimental prototypes for broad behavioral modification infrastructure — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1002 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Games like Pokémon Go serve as experimental prototypes for broad behavioral modification infrastructure #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1002
• Google’s mapping games served as test beds for expanding surveillance capitalism into physical space #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 472
• Game design can deliberately nudge real-world physical behavior. #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 982
• Competition drives surveillance capitalism from the virtual into the physical world #expands (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1070
• Maps can construct territory rather than merely represent it #expands (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 661