the unexpected depth of shallow media
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The unexpected depth of shallow media
Mathias Klang @klang67Swedish School of Library and Information
Science
Do you remember the millennium?
what this man did…
what this man did…
Blog
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
This is not a phone
Always online
The end of boredom
Performance lifestyle
My own info-mania
Normalizing the abnormal
Lifestyle apps
“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
But wait…
Crucial social infrastructures
Whose society is it?
EULA-ville
Laws in Japan are Tatemae - beautiful things - that have no
real importance. Important things are
neither seen nor written down.
FB message from Lilian Edwards
Law
Contextual & programmed social
rules
ArchitectureControl in
analogue world
Control in digital world
Why politicians no longer protect us?
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
Police on facebook
Critical social infrastructures
Enacting theoretical rights thru technology
Rights are not given they are taken, by force if necessary. Queer Nation Manifesto –
New York Gay Pride Day parade, 1990.
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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