Control and Place
I have been tossing the idea around for a project that involves the desire for control now residing in digital forms. Â This evolution of control has moved from physical groups to a much larger and accessible world. Â By controlling digital places, you have more influence over a majority of people. Â Accessibility and quantity are the two main driving factors in an attempt of control. Â The more people someone can reach or obtain information on, the more people they have that control over. Â In such a digital age, with everyone putting all their information online, through social networking, banking, blogging, etc., that information is easily gathered and compiled for the use of anyone. Â Advertising agencies use this type of information to analyze which ads will run more successfully and produce a higher income. Â
My friend was recently working on a database for his information systems class. Â He was telling me that personal records are stored in these databases. Â Medical records, phone records, bill payments, etc. could be compiled into these databases. Â Anyone who had control or access to that information would in a sense control the person who's information it entailed. Â This accessibility to information is making the idea of controlling in a digital manner more appealing than in a physical manner based on the amount of people that would fall under that control.Â
