{"id":1421,"date":"2015-05-02T16:31:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:07:48","slug":"textleaks-leaked-from-alissa-milanos-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"TextLeaks: Leaked from Alissa Milano’s iPhone."},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the course of the year I have been researching issues of public and private space surrounding mobile devices. \u00a0My interest in this topic originated with the idea that text messages could be used as ready made content and used as something other than a record of communication.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the year, I had posted my incoming text messages to Twitter and Facebook as a way to breach social expectations of privacy and communication. \u00a0TextLeaks is an extension of that idea. \u00a0The bot posts text messages that I have received as well as sent to its Twitter feed. \u00a0The social breach I had originally carried out was happening in real time. \u00a0However TextLeaks takes messages from my past archive of conversations. \u00a0Each post only contains the message with no indicator of whether I sent or received that particular SMS.<\/p>\n

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I enjoy keeping the sender\/receiver anonymous because I feel it adds not only a poetic nature to the feed, but a sense of confusion and mystery about who is speaking that works nicely with the user being a voyeur.<\/p>\n

TextLeaks is coded using Javascript\u00a0filebot obtained from Github. \u00a0The code takes each line from a text file contained in the same folder as the bot.js file and the config.js. \u00a0The config.js contains the consumer key, consumer secret, access token, and access secret, which allows the running javascript to interact with the Twitter API and post on the bots behalf. \u00a0The code is set to only include the first 140 characters of each line of text since that is the post limit for Twitter. \u00a0Aside from being stopped at 140 characters, the code recognizes line breaks that are marked at the end with a “*”, to signify that is one piece of text. \u00a0While the bot was set to post once per minute, I am lowering the post rate to twice per day once I start working out ways to gain followers.<\/p>\n

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To build on this piece, I would like to tailor the messages\/tweets to be focused around a specific topic. \u00a0For example, only having messages that are about relationship problems. \u00a0I think this could flow nicely as on ongoing poem or story in the twitter feed, and the content could be continuously added to (since we are continuously using our phones). \u00a0I also am curious about incorporating the use of hash tags to help gain followers and react to twitter topics.<\/p>\n

I am inspired by the work of Kyle McDonald, especially his piece KeyTweeter. \u00a0In his video explaining the ideas behind KeyTweeter McDonald states that communication is owned by all parties involved in its creation. \u00a0I am very interested in ways that text language can be used to create a body of work\u00a0I hope I can continue using this bot as a way to further this idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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