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September Talk at ARIN 6901 Digital Cultures Program Semester 2, 2010 The University of Sydney Nicola Giusto
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Network Society
ARIN 6901 Digital Cultures ProgramSemester 2, 2010
The University of Sydney
Nicola Giusto
Monday, 4 October 2010
Generally speaking email, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Msn, Icq
are tools that have to do with...
• Connecting people
• Social relationship
• Common interest exchange
• Communication and community
• Telecommunication
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A common idea is that since web 2.0 has been introduced people gain new possibilities to communicate each other
By definition, network society is made by a net of relationships increasing constantly
e.g. 2 young lovers can keep in touch better now than in the past while they are studying in different countries
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Are we really more connected?
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Two years ago, I went abroad for 6 months
I and my ex girlfriend were divided only by 1200 km
But... We had Skype!!
When I came back home, we suddenly broke up. Before do it, we wanted to realise a last farewell gift
A personal example:
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Farewell gift instructions
• We collect 24 (12 + 12) claims from our chats or emails that we didn’t like
• We stamp them on pillars inside a dismissed factory near our city
• She finally presented this as an art academic assignment and I wrote introduction and article
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“I let you know: I won’t be at home this evening”
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“When I logged in, you have never been online”
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“Sorry if I do not spend enough time online”
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“Hi, I don’t know if I’ll be still online after”
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“I don’t know when we’ll be able to chat”
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“Are you working? Aren’t you? I hope to chat today or tomorrow”
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“Tonight I’m out while I might be online tomorrow”
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What do I mean?
• I don’t mean our relationship ends because of web 2.0
• I mean to point out it is not obvious - as we might all think - social networks improve human communication skills
• they increase “potentially” communication so we’re all closer in time and distance but they do not affect our “actual” or “real” way to communicate
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My idea is
we should pay more attention to:
• potential vs actual
• deep vs superficial
• virtual vs real
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ConclusionThink to communication as a mass of plastilina or play-doh. It becomes thin as more as you stress it
Network Society has stressed it more than any other previous society
So human being has now a disparate need to communicate because we are all living in a fake communicational world
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Thank you
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