empowered citizens or digital dairy cows
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Social media: Empowered citizens or Digital dairy cows
Mathias Klang @klang67
I’m a geek.
What we talk about when we talk about social media
The fundamentalists: 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
The end of boredom
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.
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?)
What we need to know about social media
if you're not paying for
something, you're not the
customer; you're the
product being sold
We are digital dairy cows?
Social media is performance lifestyle
My amazing coffee
Understanding the digital dairy farmer
“You have one identity… The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly… Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity”
Mark Zuckerberg, 2009
Counteracting compartmentalization
MATS MÜGGE
”Jättebra barnskötare - men texten är inte förenlig med vår verksamhet”
Public (?)privacy
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
Wtf? How did this happen?
Are we stupid?
Ignorant?
Accident?
Facebook made me do it!Not an excuse – but a reality
Technology, licenses & lack of social responsibility
Don’t forget the network effect: Bad
news travels fast
Who will fix it?
What will the law do?
Privacy & the end of big brother
The problem with autonomy
Regulation by proxy: a paranoid approach?
What are organizations doing?
Creating policies, ignoring reality“personlig inte privat”
The futures of social technology
personalization
Walled gardenslife as a digital dairy cow
New dependencies (tics, not addiction)
So…, closing thoughts…
Don’t forget the squirrels
Policy is not enough
In a network: silence is acquiescence
Think before you update.
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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