Social Media & the Changing Face of Work

Social Media &

the Changing Face of Work

Mathias Klang @klang67

What is a hotel room?

What humans do?

technology doesn’t matter?

Determinism: techno or otherwise

Sociotechnical change (rip Eugene Polley)

Being digital liberates us from one format tyranny. Our habits lock us in.

Controlled by convenience

Is technology smart?

Man vs Machine

The augmented human

Egyptian wood & leather prosthetic toe (ca 1069 to 664 B.C)

Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

Swedish telephone c:a 1896

Writing as external memories

"Our gadgets have eliminated the need to remember such things anymore."

Joshua Foer

Threat

Plato – The Phaedrus (ca 370 bc)

…you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

Threat perception

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.

Communication technology

Authorship & copyright are inventions of technology

Exodus 20:14

THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)

”It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern....”

Tolstoj War & Peace

Blog

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999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

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)

Normalizing the abnormal

Optimism: conversation & convenience

Pessimist talk

This is not a phone

Always online

The end of boredom

“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

Performance lifestyle

Truman show delusion

Social networks

Dunbar’s 150

Stimuli or relations

"If we don't teach our children to be alone all they will be is lonely" Sherry Turkle

Private or Personal

What wordfeud did

Technostress & Insomnia

Who is in control?

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

if you're not paying for

something, you're not the

customer; you're the

product being sold

What does it all mean?

Old stupidity or new intelligence?

Can we quit? If we quit will we have deep thoughts?

Are those of us who

remember the analogue

age fortunate or

unfortunate?

Remember this?

Monotask queuing

Not knowing

Waiting by THE phone

Technology changes us & we change it

The advantages are huge

1. Understand how it will help you

2. Understand how it changes your customers

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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