The car doubles as private refuge and filming location for self-revelation

Evidence

More than the home, the car is a mobile and flexible encapsulation of privacy, a singular space that “represents freedom because: it is … a place to be alone, as a mobile apartment, a place where your children can misbehave without embarrassing you and themselves in public, a place for sexual activity; you can pick and choose your companions; the car waits for you; waiting at a bus stop is far less comfortable than sitting in traffic jams.” Today, along with these other functions, the car becomes a space to film oneself, a space where, through one’s social isolation, a camera can reveal one’s true beliefs and feelings while one is otherwise hidden from view (aside from the view permitted by the smartphone and social media). — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 178

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the car as the second of the book’s four infrastructures—a mobile, generic privacy as opposed to the home’s specific domesticity.