Law and Disorder in New & Social Media

Law and disorder in new & social mediaMathias Klang

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced… to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes … and serves as a social mediator of relations between people.

Norms from above

Power to the people: Democracy

Power of the technocracy

Socio-legal regulation

Law

Contextual & programmed social

rules

Architecture

Technology makes society

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

Speech (hate, defamation, insult, sex) Integrity

Copyright

But first technological change – why it matters

Game changer: storage

Production costs

Music unrecorded prior to 1857

What does this mean?

Game changer: communication

Digitalization

Connectivity

Storage

Devices

Flickr

2000

2001

2002

2003 2005

2004 2006

Wikipedia

Linkedin

Blog

ger 1

999

Second Life

My Space

Skype

Digg

Facebook

Ning

YouTube

Twitter

Spotify

Google c:a 1998

2008

2007 2009

Farmville

iphone

WikileaksAngry Birds

Theoretical rights become inevitable

practice

Technology changing society, but social rules slow to evolve…

speech

2:1 § Varje medborgare är gentemot det allmänna tillförsäkrad1. yttrandefrihet: frihet att i tal, skrift eller bild eller på annat sätt meddela upplysningar samt uttrycka tankar, åsikter och känslor…

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire

…300 år sedan…

"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"

Uni student bomb threat

Navy instructor pilots lose flying status for Lake Tahoe dip

privacy

Surveillance: gaze from above

Power relationship

Everybody exhibitionism

We used to leak information

Compartmentalization

Analog social norms

Protection from the outer gaze

End of privacy?

The Hive-mind

If you have done nothing wrong,

you have nothing to fear

We have (theoretical) control over Big Brother

If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold

copyright

• Theater• Music• Film• Art• Buildings• Photos• Litterature

70 years post mortem

Terms of protection (Sweden)

Regulating the future

Between law and technology

Contextual & programmed social

rules

personalization

The internet is shows us what it thinks that we want to see – not what we need to see Eli Pariser

Identity & Information junk food.

It will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them. Eric Schmidt, Google

Technology is not inherently democratic

Law without infrastructure

Problem 1: We are stupid

Problem 2: We don’t know what we don’t know

Problem 3: difference between who I want to be & who I am…

Problem 4: The keepers of algorithms know this

There have always been gatekeepers.

We have (theoretical) control over Big Brother

A Squirrel Dying In Your Front Yard May Be More Relevant To

Your Interests Right Now Than People

Dying In AfricaMark Zuckerberg

Thank you.

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• Mathias Klang. klang@ituniv.se or @klang67