spider presentation by david isaksson
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David Isaksson gave a keynote speech at BlogfestAsia 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Internet power – and empowerment
David IsakssonSpider bord member, journalist, writer
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FROM A FEW SIMILAR MEDIA TO A MULTITUDE OF DIFFERENT MEDIA
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FROM ANALOG INFORMATION TO DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
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FROM DISSEMINATING INFORMATION TO CHANGING ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR
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FROM "EXPERTS COMMUNICATE" TO "EVERYONE COMMUNICATES"
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SOCIAL MEDIA MAKES THE WORLD MORE UNPREDICTABLE
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Muslim rage?
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“TWITTER IS MY CITY”“Twitter is my city, my favorite city. I can talk to
anybody I want to. And anybody who wants to talk to me will get my response. They know me better than their relatives or my relatives. There's so much imagination there; a lot of times it's just like poetry. You just read one sentence, and you sense this kind of breeze or a kind of look. It's amazing.”
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(Ai Weiwei)
Picture: Wikipedia
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IMPORTANT TRENDS• Freedom vs control
• Decline of traditional media
• End of investigative journalism?
• Crowdsourcing
• Open data
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Can power be translated into empowering those without a voice?
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“Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away.”
Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalogue
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Open Data…
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… could really become an important tool, both for social media activist and for the civil society.
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LET’S COLLABORATE!• Let everybody participate, let everybody
contribute.
• Crowd-thinking, crowd sourcing.
• Citizen journalism.
• Everyone can be a spindoctor!
• Go viral.
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