pedagogical challenges of social media

Pedagogical Challenges of Social Media

Mathias Klang @klang67

“The inventor of the system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning and science, if not the greatest benefactors of mankind”

Josiah F. Bumstead

Neither prophets nor luddites

A (very) short history of social media

The augmented human

Egyptian wood & leather prosthetic toe (ca 1069 to 664 B.C)

Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

Generation zero

hollerith

Birth of computing 1940s

memexVannevar Bush; As We May Think; Atlantic Monthly; July 1945

Generation 3 (1964-72)

Arpanet: connections with redundancy (1969-1990)

Bulletin board system (late 1970s)

Ideology

Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and give it away free to everyone who can use it.

GNU Project, posted by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983.

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable… On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

Stewart Brand (1984)

Information Wants To Be Free. Information also

wants to be expensive. ...That tension

will not go awaySteward Brand (1985)

The Well: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (1985)

stewart Brand & Larry Brilliant

Stallman’s Free software definition (1986)

Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any

purpose.Freedom 1: To study &

change the programFreedom 2: To redistribute

copiesFreedom 3: Improve &

publically release the program

I believe that all generally useful information should be free. By 'free' I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to copy the information and to adapt it to one's own uses... When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving.

Stallman (1990)

From jesus to green cards1994, the first spam is sent over usenet

World wide web (an open standard)

Hypertext in the wild - Tim Berners-Lee (1990/91)

Mosaic web browser (1993)

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

John Gilmore (December 1993 quoted in TIME Magazine)

Law in a database

Julian Dibbell (1993) A Rape in Cyberspace

Johnson & Post (1996) Law and Borders - The

Rise of Law in Cyberspace

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

John Perry Barlow (1996) A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Killer apps 1995: Browser wars

Dot-com bubble (1995-2000)

The rise and fall of edemocracy(1995-2000)

Code and other laws of cyberspaceLawrence Lessig (1999)

Information wants to be free – the radical approach

Napster 1999 (sued 2000)

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

91 % Access to the Internet at home83 % Access to broadband at home7 % Never used a computer

Source: Sweden Statistics 2011 (*Individuals aged 16-74)

From User generated content to Social Media to user entertainment

Blog

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

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)

Normalizing the abnormal

Pessimist talk

This is not a phone

Always online

The end of boredom

Are those of us who

remember the analogue

age fortunate or

unfortunate?

Remember this?

Monotask queuing

Not knowing

Waiting by THE phone

Social networks

Dunbar’s 150

Stimuli or relations

"If we don't teach our children to be alone all they will be is lonely" Sherry Turkle

Private or Personal

“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

Performance lifestyle

My awesome coffee

Truman show delusion

What does it all mean?

Old stupidity or new intelligence?

Technology changes us & we change it

Who is in control?

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

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

if you're not paying for

something, you're not the

customer; you're the

product being sold

The weakest link

Performance goes bad…

Channels

Medical news

Swedish employment law

The blogging policeman

The sexy Headmaster

Tough Questions

Knowledge vs Opinions?

Truth over time?

Friending & The purpose of formality

Will the introverts survive?

Pimping students, selling souls & losing control

Google docs, gmail, facebook, doodle, slideshare…

Friending, following & Lurking

Criticism

Remedies

RTFM – read the license.

Law (it’s still there).

Policies and guidelines

Training, seminar, discussion

Be that guy!

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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