the power to negotiate
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The Power to Negotiate
Trebor ScholzDepartment of Media [email protected]
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0
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Sociable web media make people easier to use
but we can’t let them (and them in us) get the best of us.
communal negotiating power FB (741.000 join group)
p2p solutions
individuals making money (ebay, Amazon.com)
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The Wanted Gaze
The Internet is the culmination of seamless control that now reaches into all of social sphere, home and workplace alike.
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Constitutional right
The privacy obligation/ expected privacy
Harm done by thin privacy
Privacy
http://tinyurl.com/3x3rzz
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March 27, 2006LAStudents organize 15000 people for immigration protest through MySpace and SMS
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8 days after a video was posted showing how to pick the lock in 30 seconds using a pen, Kryptonite recalled 380,000 locks
Businesses can’t stop the conversation...so they try to harness it for your benefit
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Rights cannot be enforced without power.
You need to have real rights, not merely on paper
The struggle for the 8-hour day
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Google Bombing16
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In September Facebook launched a
"news feed" feature causing protest and
responses by 741,000 users who joined the
Students Against Facebook News Feed group.
http://tinyurl.com/22h7cm18
http://daywithoutfacebook.blogspot.com/
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http://tinyurl.com/etj7m
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208288769
741.000 members of FB group in September 2006
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http://tinyurl.com/y3fedz
“Even though I wish I hadn't made so many of you angry, I am glad we got to hear you,” he wrote. “And I am also glad that News Feed highlighted all these groups so people could find them and share their opinions with each other as well.”
http://tinyurl.com/2n9mhl
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http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208288769
741.000 members of FB group in September 2006
ease of information flow
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http://tinyurl.com/ywps4k
“Every MySpace user I know is absolutely sick of the advertising onslaught and would leave if they could. But they feel trapped because they have so much content invested there, not to mention all their friends.”
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What does a FB group achieve?
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http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2495777020027
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2495777020028
BOYCOTT PRODUCTS MADE IN CHINA
URGENT UPDATE: Injured Protesters being BURNED ALIVE
how to convince 2008 olympic athletes not to go to CHINA?
should we send troops to burma to free the people
Who wants to pay Blackwater to get rid of the Burma regime?
Monks need to give up non-violence
Wear RED Strings For Burma!
One constructive idea on how to pressure the Chinese government into action
What can I do for Burma?
Start Non-English "Support the Monks" Groups
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Henry Jenkins:
People are empowered in their role as consumers
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2007/05/between_a_rock.html
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Some feel that users have too much control over content, allowing sensationalism and misinformation to thrive, blowing unsupported claims out of proportion while quickly exposing very many people to these opinion pieces.
http://tinyurl.com/2u3ztshttp://tinyurl.com/39g279http://tinyurl.com/37vx5w
It has been reported that the top 100 Digg users control 56% of Digg's front page content and that a niche group of just twenty individuals had submitted 25% of the front page content.
http://tinyurl.com/2v9ppzhttp://tinyurl.com/2v9ppzhttp://tinyurl.com/2v9ppzhttp://tinyurl.com/ynla34
Digg.com co-founder Kevin Rose
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http://tinyurl.com/2u3ztshttp://tinyurl.com/39g279http://tinyurl.com/37vx5w
http://tinyurl.com/2v9ppzhttp://tinyurl.com/2v9ppz
On May 1, 2007 an article appeared on Digg’s
homepage that contained the encryption key
for the AACS digital rights management
protection of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
http://tinyurl.com/2v9ppz
“Digital Boston Tea Party”
http://tinyurl.com/2cg9hm
http://tinyurl.com/2rszvk
Digg, removed the submissions and banned contributors. The removals were seen by many users as a capitulation to corporate interests and an assault on free speech. The Digg community staged a wide-spread revolt. One of the Digg users referred to it as a "Digital Boston Tea Party." Digg’s response:
“[A]fter seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.” —Kevin Rose
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http://tinyurl.com/322lyy
It was significant that in a well-organized effort, 8-30 million people in 800 cit ies worldwide simultaneously showed their defiance of the war in Iraq on February 15, 2003. The Internet served as organizational tool. March 19 - The first American bombs drop on Baghdad, Iraq. March 20- the invasion starts.
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Is there an asymmetry in the dependency
between users and companies?
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Enhanced Individual Autonomy
Newly expanded practical freedom: to act and cooperate to improve the experience of democracy, justice, development, critical culture, and community
WoN p 9
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Enhanced Autonomy
1) Improves capacity to do more for and by themselves
2) Enhances capacity to do more in loose commonality with others (without the hierarchies of traditional organizations)
3) Improves capacity of individuals to do more in organizations that are outside the market sphere
WoN p 8
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Income streams from core intellectual capital
Google Adsense
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