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Slava Kozlov, Summ( )n, for InterDirect Network Spring Meeting 2011 in Tallinn
So called ‘Social Media’: What do we do with it? What does it do with us?
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Get Social !
The book I saw a couple of weeks ago.
Social media as a fantasy land ?
The context.
The magazine I bought when flying to the conference.
one ‘old’ theory
Commemorate 100th anniversary of ….
“You don’t know anything of Marshal McLuhan!”
1911-1980 1964
The famous maxim was first written in the book with a title “Understanding Media”.
The book had a subtitle “The Extensions of Man”
Communication as transformation Medium is the message
“Mine is a transformation theory. How are people changed
by the instruments they employ.”
“It’s a hidden environment of services that changes people, not the
technology.”
Few words of wisdom
The videos can be found at www.marshallmcluhanspeaks.com
Few more words of wisdom
The last words of wisdom
Each new technology is a
reprogramming of our sensory life
and then in turn a culture.
So,
…this talk will NOT be about the tools
we blog
‘Robot Wisdom’, a collection of the weblinks by Jorn Barger, widely considered as the first blog (from web-log).
The very first blog
Proliferation of blog platforms.Earlier forms of ‘digital darwinism
Where do you blog?
One of the postings, in one of the many millions personal blogs .
Writing small pieces of text, about the most mundane things, re-writing own texts, coping with the ‘writer’s blocks’, copy-pasting, planning, integrating into other daily activities
But also reading the blogs of others, commenting, reacting, critiquing.
A typical blog
- contrary to all ‘serious bets’.
30 mln
2005
The fad refuses to disappear -
2007
2010
70 mln
170 mln
Instead, the ‘fad’ explodes exponentially
More than a half of the US (adult?) population run own blogs, and almost 80% read the blogs regularly. 77%
52%
Blog usage in the US
Blog impact on… journalism
And on a wide range of other professions, too.
Business attitude and usage
The power of You
…I admit that the past three years of blogging have altered me in some rather dramatic ways that do, in fact, begin to call my very existence into question.
I am not referring to the ways that blogging has caused a career change, granted me political and media access that I still find shocking, almost entirely ended my participation in old social circles and presented me with new ones, allowed me to work from home, or otherwise had an impact on the day to day activities of my life.
Instead, I am actually referring to an important way in which blogging has altered my very consciousness. … Blogging has not just changed the activities in which I engage – the activities in which I engage in order to be a successful blogger have profoundly altered the way my mind operates and the way I conceptualize my agency in relation to others.
In effect, I do not exist in the same way I once existed.
Chris Bowers, MyDD blog (c 2009)
“
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Blog as a mind-changer
Brain activity while readingof a person not used to using the web
Brain activity while reading of an active user of the web
Dr Gary Small
Blog as a mind-changer - literally
EmpowermentSelf-confidenceActive attitude to lifeCreativity and courage Wisdom
“I feel there is more of me when I blog”
Those who got it right
“Podcasting is my lifestyle!”
multi(ple)media
From text… to everything else
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in futurum.
Music…. pictures… videos…
“The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else.” -
Hugh MacLeod
Everything becomes a Social Object
Social music
Social pictures
Image hosting becomes a social institution
US Civil War 1861 Royal Wedding 2011
But be ready for surprises (and don’t feed the trolls!)
From simple comments to YouTube videos…
…to sophisticated video-replies…
...to new art/media genre
Life is getting brighter! But not only.
Innovation DIY
Commercial book scanner
from $10,000
DIY scanner by Daniel Reetz
less $300
DIY Video Leading to Community - to Wiki - to Movement
Dark Matter of Innovation
“…the amount of efforts (time x money) individual consumers spent making and improving products is more than twice as large(2.3 times, to be precise) as the amount spent by all British firms combined on product research and development.”
E ik
3D printing - of the new world
MIT is aimed at developing programmable molecular assemblers that will be able to make *almost* anything.
…and helps to spread these technologies for innovation globally and to different social groups .
MIT Center of Bits and Atoms
DIY Genomics
Who needs doctors in the new era of health hacking?
Raymond McCauley is betting on cheap gene tests plus some amateur science to minimize his chances of succumbing to a sight-threatening syndrome
change yourself to change the world to change yourself to change the world to change
community
(Global) Village… leading to ‘digital maoism’?
Reconstruction of Aztecan village The phrase ‘Global Village” was used by Marshal McLuhan in his book Guttenberg Galaxy in 1962.
Early Online Communities: PLATO
PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations)was one of the first computer-assisted educational systems, and an example of earlier digital community (mid1970s).
It has established the key concepts of any online community thereafter: forums, message boards, online testing, e-mail, chat rooms, picture languages, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and even multi-player games.
Participation in PLATO community is widely referred as one of the most uplifting and life changing experiences by its members.
Peripheral (i.e. Lurker) – An outside, unstructured participationInbound (i.e. Novice) – Newcomer is invested in the communityInsider (i.e. Regular) – Full committed community participantBoundary (i.e. Leader) – A leader, with long-time membership and often mediating/supervising rolesOutbound (i.e. Elder) – Someone who is about to leave
LiveJournal - A community of bloggers
LiveJournal offere a unique system combining individual blogs and a membership in a larger online community.
User could easily build their own network of ‘friends’ and also, if necessary, set up their own specialized communities.
Individual blog (‘journal’). An online stream created by the entries of the ‘friends’, with an embedded options to comment and interact.
An example of LJ community
Online communities for the sake of online communities
Proliferation of the ‘social networking services’, online platforms that focus primarily on building and managing social networks or social relations among people.
Social networks are in flux
Friendster is the social gaming destination of choice! Connect and play with your
friends and share your progress to your network.
Over 90% of Friendster's traffic (115 mln users) comes from Asia.
45% of all bloggers in Russia (including President Medvedev)uses LiveJournal as the main pla
Sex connects
MySpace: From to
Professional online communities
From a somewhat reluctant business matching service to active promoter of new business interactions and activities.
Even more professional online communities
Online collaboration platformsOnline co-creation platforms
Mass multiplayer R&D Online innovation ‘jams’.
Wikinomics
Wikipedia, a collaborative knowledge creation and sharing service and the largest info-vault - but also an active, constantly evolving community.
Understanding complex relationships in complex networks
Lunux refers to the family of the Unix-like computer OS (operating systems), but also widely used a symbol of open-source code/code development practice, both a community and a collaborative enterprise.
It is also often describes as an interdependent ecosystem, characterized by passionate engagement and stigmergicproduction.
Linux Community
When right things happen magically, as if ‘themselves
contemporaneitycontemporaneousness
Tweet, tweet
A microblogging service that starte in 2006 and was universally regard as the ‘stupidiest online service ev
It is currently estimated to have 20 million users, generates 65 million tweets a day and runs over 800,000 search queries daily.
What the tweet?
Clive Thompson, from Wired, called it ‘our sixth sense’ of the web, a sense of digital social proprioception.
Location, location, location
From letting the system to know your location…
…to proactively pushing information about your location in time and space via different channels
World changing, one game at a time
Creative tools using your location to link you with community - and with services…
…leading to changes in your behavior and lifestyle
Social Media in Your Shoes, Your Flower, You Can of Cola
“My shoe likes your shoe!” Your plant twittering that it needs to be watered
Social vending machine Make-up is a social business!
Internet of Things
Pachube: a platform to stream, store, connect and interlink the real-time data streams from objects, devices, buildings - and ‘what-not-else’ - from all around the world.
What Facebook?
Here I suggested to discuss Facebook - not the usual stats, however impressive they are,
but the transformational impact the system has (and its own transformation as a result)
Facebook: The usual stats
“Facebook has 610,736,920 member profiles. That’s one for every ELEVEN people on the planet.
Every minute people send 230,000 messages, update 95,000 statuses, write 80,000 wall posts, tag 65,000 photos, share 50,000 links -and affirm or disparage them all with half a million comments.
Each month, the average user creates 90 pieces of content and spends 6+ hours on the site.
Zynga has 19 games that attract 275 million users a month.
Analysts estimate that Facebook pulled in $1.86 billion in advertising in 2010, and expected to grow 118% in 2011 year, to $4 billion.
Virtual goods for sale on the site make up an estimated $835 million market.”
From the Fast Company, April 2011
(here should be a mirror)
Omnipotent mechanging the world
Stigmergic systemshelping me JIT -provided I ping
In the situation of growing complexity…
… permanent transformation is the Key
ps: one case
I didn’t manage (time-wise) to present this case: from one side, this is quite a typical example of ‘social media’ use
by the business,on the other side, it shows those ‘transformations’ that I was talking
about.
SL: 3D Virtual World
SL: Social space
SL: Amazingly creative…
SL: … and promising business-wise
Business in Second Life
Anshe Chung(Ailin Graef in RL)who reportedly built a $US 1 mln business In Second Life.
“Philips enters Second Life”
“You don’t get it!” Anti-business demonstrations in SL
Starting from exploring new environment and learning its culture
Building a place for gatherings and conversations
Learning to earn money Meeting people (avatars) Attending a seminar
Meeting SL partner Building a home Doing shopping
My Second Life study: Co-exploring the virtual world
Real life settings of ‘social users’ of SL
Real life settings of ‘scripters and builders’ of SL
• Two distinctively different clusters of real life settings – of the ‘social’ users and of the ‘builders & scripters’
• People are multi-tasking and use many online tools, and intertwine real life activities and their virtual lives
• Among the key motivations were the desire to to learn, to socialize, to enrich and enhance their lives
• Playful explorations of the new online tools - and of themselves (e.g., via role-playing) were the key activities
Blending real and virtual life in search of self-development
Business should be: “interactive, educational or enlightening, honest, and with a sense of humour and fun”
Business should not be: “huge corporate castles with empty halls, no imagination or creativity, no interactions,
no people, no experience, no interesting stuff but only plain advertising”
Word of advise for the business
Round-tables ‘Lifestyle 2020’
Online workshops about sustainable solutions for emerging markets
Ideation Quest: A mini-game to stimulate creativity and idea generation
A feedback
“I’d like to say my big thank-you to Philips Design! They've engaged a group of volunteers in active discussions, they've listened to us, and they've shared their knowledge.
My only criticism of the experience is that I want *more* - it's such a delight to engage with this group of intelligent, insightful, delightful people!”
What are the lessons?
That you have to study your future customers and their environments before venturing into new territories?
That you have to participate yourself in the things you want to use —and even more so if you want to change them?
That you have to engage and participate (ideally - co-create) with people?
Yes, yes and yes. But…
Remember the ‘but’ from Second Life?
It was playful transformation that people become interested in.It was not designed by the creators of SL.
Nor was it understood by the majority of the business.
