truth, lies & social media

Truth, lies & social mediaMathias Klang

The easy part: social media

How did we get here?

Flickr

2000

2001

2002

2003 2005

2004 2006

Wikipedia

Linkedin

Blog

ger 1

999

Second Life

My Space

Skype

Digg

Facebook

Ning

YouTube

Twitter

Spotify

Google c:a 1998

2008

2007 2009

Farmville

iphone

WikileaksAngry Birds

Theoretical rights become inevitable

practice

Warning! “Multiplication can produce powerful numbers”

Copyriot (Rasmus Fleischer)

The hard part: What is truth?

What is an expert…?

Monopoly on knowledgeSharp division between readers and writers

Monopoly on truth

Are we Biologically programmed to seek authority?

Stories of “truth” And problems with technology

1. Old truth

Spanish caseEl riesgo de querer ser esbelta (El Pais 1991)

2. opinions

"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"

3. entrapment: the seduction of technology

4. Contextual truth

5. Filter bubbles

Do you know who you are?

compartmentalization

Social media & anti-compartmentalization

Thinking for yourself

It will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them. Eric Schmidt, Google

Personalization is trivialization

What do the people who control what we can do, think?

What will they let us think?

A Squirrel Dying In Your Front Yard May Be More Relevant To Your Interests Right Now Than People

Dying In AfricaMark Zuckerberg

The right to be forgotten

6. A neutral point of view: Wikipedia

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

Jimmy Wales

Be careful what you wish for'Cause you just might get it

And if you get it then you just might not know

What to do wit' it…

Eminem

Wikipedia: Neutral Point of view

Burkina faso

OUAGADOUGOU[citation needed]

So what’s new about all this?

the expert is dead, long live the experts.

We are all experts now?

Influence systems (klout) Measuring what?Illusion of experts

Source criticism (källkritik)From avoiding plagiarism independent thinking

Question why, how & where things are being said.

In moderation… abuse of power may cause social #fail

Just because you're paranoidDon't mean they're not after you.

Kurt Cobain

Thank you.

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• Mathias Klang. klang@ituniv.se or @klang67