personal, private, professional: surviving social media
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Personal, private, professional: surviving social media Mathias Klang @klang67
I’m a geek.
Technology: history & dystopia
hollerith
What is social media?
Revolution or breakfast?
revolution?
Twitter? Isn’t that where
everyone talks about what
they had for breakfast?
Neo-optimists vs neo-pessimists
Social media…At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and
content. It's a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is
the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers.
(Wikipedia, May 2009)
2006
"Out of this anarchy… what was governing the infinite monkeys now inputting away on the Internet was the law of digital Darwinism, the survival of the loudest and most opinionated.”
Andrew Keen: Cult of the amateur (2007)
“My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.” Prof. Susan Greenfield
How we got where we are
Digitalization Internet WWW Fixed cost connections Storage Costs web2.0 Devices Social Media
Blog
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
Normalizing the abnormal
Silly? Harmful?
That’s Good planking
Players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to play… Rigidity of the body must be maintained to constitute good
planking.
Social control & change through technology
What we need to know about technology
Douglas Adams
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
Social media is performance lifestyle
My amazing coffee
Facebook made me do it!Not an excuse – but a reality
Technology, licenses & lack of social responsibility
if you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold
Law without infrastructure
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
Jonas cuts his hand
Medical news
Took the photo & uploaded
Others in the room?
Commented image
Silent majority?
The networked society?
Wtf? How did this happen?
Are we stupid?
Ignorant?
Accident?
In case of emergencyPhotograph the event
Tweet the photoUpdate your Facebook status
Call Emergency Services
Network effect: Bad news
travels fast
The de-contextualization of information: the Spanish doctor
Who will fix it?
What will the law do?PUL, Autonomy, Regulation by proxy
Privacy & the end of compartmentalization
The problem with autonomy
Surveillance
Sousveillance
autoveillance
What organizations doing?
Creating policies, ignoring reality“personlig inte privat”
The futures of social technology
personalization
Walled gardenslife as a digital sharecropper
New dependencies (tics, not addiction)
So…, closing thoughts…
Don’t forget the squirrels
Policy is not enough
In a network: silence is acquiescence
Think. Please think.
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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