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INFORMATION POLITICSMathias Klang
WHAT IS INFORMATION POLITICS?
Is all control censorship?
SO WHAT IS CENSORSHIP?
INFO-CONTROL IS ANCIENT
All communication & media has been affected
LAYERS OF CONTROL
VOICE
TRANSPARENCY
STRANGLEHOLD OF MIDDLEMEN
FEAR OF FAILURE
MYTH OF RIGHTS
as linear progression
We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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IS SPEECH IMPORTANT
The opinions of others may be right. We are not infallible. Truth changes. Without challenges we are left with dead dogma
TRUTH ARGUMENT - MILL
DEMOCRACY ARGUMENT
The purpose of speech is not truth – the purpose is participationAlexander Meiklejohn
Tolerance argument
Paternalism is “natural” & expression includes non-speech acts
John Bollinger “The Tolerant Society”
AGAIN…IS CENSORSHIP WRONG?
THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
Anarchists CookbookNazi Memorabilia
Sexual images
DADDY, WHAT’S THAT MAN DOING WITH THE HAMSTER
LANGUAGE, CULTURE & OTHER TOOLS OF REPRESSION
5 censors
LOUIS SEBASTIAN MERCIER “TABLEAU DE PARIS”
Freedom of the press is only one form of freedom of expression. It is linked to a certain technology or technique and its importance diminishes with the development of other technologies which replace or complement the printing press.
GEORGE ORWELL
“Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.”
Newspeak
1ST CENSOR
FEAR
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all
right-thinking people will accept without question...
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds
himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.
2ND CENSOR
PERMISSION CULTURE
3RD CENSOR
CONTROL OF CHANNELS OF DISTRIBUTION
4TH CENSOR
LAW
5TH CENSOR
SO WHY DO WE NEED TO LOOK AT INFORMATION?
Technology = Communication = Society = Democracy
TECHNOLOGY IS DEMOCRACY
TECHNÉ controls what & howwe interact create & THINK
Communication
Organization
Protest Access
Religion
PrivacyCulture
Education
Press
No sidewalks online
REGULATION OF TECHNOLOGY IS THE REGULATION OF DEMOCRACY
&
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 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 when you’re of things.
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SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY
DE LEGE FERENDA
Lagen som den bör vara
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Second Life
My Space
Skype
Google c:a 1998
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Blog
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My Space
Skype
Digg
YouTube
Flickr
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Flickr
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Blog
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My Space
Skype
Digg
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YouTube
Spotify
Google c:a 1998
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DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGYThe disruption occurs when the technology, which is introduced effects the social arrangements around which we build our lives
IMPULSE: CONTROL
REGULATIONFrom Command and Control to Fuller & Lessig
The position of this work is that regulation is every force or external controls exerted upon those to be regulated.
“the enterprise of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules”
Latour, B. (1992). “Where are the Missing Masses? Sociology of a Few Mundane Artefacts”
Winner, L. (1985) “Do Artefacts have Politics?”
HCI people can think of this as the tyranny of affordance*
* I want to write an article with this title…
WHAT’S WRONG WITH COMMAND AND CONTROL?It relies to heavily upon coercion and cooperation.
ONLINE OFFLINE
“We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.” (Barlow 1996)
Regulatory Metaphor
Law
Social RulesContextual & programed
Architecture
Lessig (1999)
BUT
AUTONOMY RUINS EVERYTHING
Enter the age of FREE
FROM ORWELL HUXLEY
GRATIS?SökmotorReaderMapsKalenderScholarOch mycket mer…
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We provide advertisers only aggregated non-personal information such as the number of times one of their ads was clicked. We do not sell, rent or otherwise share your personal information with any third parties except in the limited circumstances described in the Google Privacy Policy, such as when we believe we are required to do so by law.
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.
If you are not a paying customer then you are the product
TWITTER:TELL IT ALL
PRAKTISK ANVÄNDNING
SKVALLER4:DIMENSIONENNYHETSKANAL
DANISH MOTHER
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, maj 2009)
LEAVE THE OPTIMISM
GOOGLE, A CENSOR?
MOVIE: HITLER PARODY
Privatizing Censorship
• Non-technical/self censorship– “Public Pledge of Self-Regulation & Professional
Ethics for China Internet Industry” • Responsibility on the signatories:– Inspect & monitor foreign & domestic sites– Block harmful information
Censorship
THANKS!
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(om ej annat anges)
• Image & licensing info in the notes section of slides/bild & licensinfo finns i anteckningsdelen för varje slide
• Presentation licensed/Presentation licensierad under: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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• More information about me/för mer information om mig: www.techrisk.se & www.digital-rights.net
