pedagogical challenges of social media
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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 [email protected] or @klang67
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