Personal, Private, Professional: Surviving Social Media

Personal, private, professional: surviving social media Mathias Klang @klang67

I’m a geek.

Technology: history & dystopia

hollerith

What is social media?

Revolution or breakfast?

revolution?

Twitter? Isn’t that where

everyone talks about what

they had for breakfast?

Neo-optimists vs neo-pessimists

Social media…At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and

content. It's a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is

the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers.

(Wikipedia, May 2009)

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)

“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

How we got where we are

Digitalization Internet WWW Fixed cost connections Storage Costs web2.0 Devices Social Media

Blog

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

Normalizing the abnormal

Silly? Harmful?

That’s Good planking

Players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to play… Rigidity of the body must be maintained to constitute good

planking.

Social control & change through technology

What we need to know about technology

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.

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

Social media is performance lifestyle

My amazing coffee

Facebook made me do it!Not an excuse – but a reality

Technology, licenses & lack of social responsibility

if you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold

Law without infrastructure

What do the people who control what we can do, think?

What will they let us think?

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

Your Interests Right Now Than People

Dying In AfricaMark Zuckerberg

Jonas cuts his hand

Medical news

Took the photo & uploaded

Others in the room?

Commented image

Silent majority?

The networked society?

Wtf? How did this happen?

Are we stupid?

Ignorant?

Accident?

In case of emergencyPhotograph the event

Tweet the photoUpdate your Facebook status

Call Emergency Services

Network effect: Bad news

travels fast

The de-contextualization of information: the Spanish doctor

Who will fix it?

What will the law do?PUL, Autonomy, Regulation by proxy

Privacy & the end of compartmentalization

The problem with autonomy

Surveillance

Sousveillance

autoveillance

What organizations doing?

Creating policies, ignoring reality“personlig inte privat”

The futures of social technology

personalization

Walled gardenslife as a digital sharecropper

New dependencies (tics, not addiction)

So…, closing thoughts…

Don’t forget the squirrels

Policy is not enough

In a network: silence is acquiescence

Think. Please think.

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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