from code to memes : how the web is rewiring space
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Talk during the Anti Tectonics Forum Beijing Design Week 751 Art District, Beijing. September, 28th. 2013TRANSCRIPT
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From code to memes : how the Web is rewiring space
Anti Tectonics Forum 751 Art District, Beijing. September, 28th. 2013
Clément Renaud
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Renaud Clément
Freelance Researcher / phD• Data Visualization• Media Studies• Web Development• Information System• Urban Geography
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Suburbian phase : cars « Smart » Phase : ICT
(Thrift & French, 2002)
“More and more, the spaces of everyday life come loaded up with software”
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How does the social web influence our practices of space?
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Online Social networksIm
age from Rian.ru
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Online memes :-)
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What is a meme?
meme. An element of a culture that may be considered to be passed on by non genetic means‐
‐‐ Oxford English Dictionary
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US politics : Grand Old Party
highly polarized discussionJapan Hearthquake in March 2011
Typical hot news spread
Different memes spread differently
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Arab Spring strongly connected hubs
Different memes spread differently
From Weng et al., 2012 in Nature
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Structure of Social Networks
Random Network Free-scale Network Small World Network
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Social Networks are « small worlds »
Facebook Friendship Map by Facebook Data team
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The web is rewiring us, but how?
Urban renewal has built unnatural urban spaces that destroyed communities (Jacobs, 1961)
The engineered serendipity of the Web also tends to enclose our “digital surroundings”.(Zuckerman, 2013)
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Online Extensibility
The bubble of the Web (Pariser, 2011)
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The « guidebook effect »
I am moving to XXX!
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With social engineering, serendipity and extensibility are decreasing rapidly.
The interface lead us through code, datato find desirable friends , objects and places.
But even by going places online, maybe we are just travelling
through our small worlds.