1. Pedagogical Challenges of
Social Media
Mathias Klang @klang67

2. “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

3. Neither prophets
nor luddites

4. A (very) short history of social media

5. The augmented
human

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

7. Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

8. Generation zero

9. hollerith

10. Birth of
computing 1940s

11. memex
Vannevar Bush; As We May Think; Atlantic Monthly; July 1945

12. Generation 3 (1964-72)

13. Arpanet: connections with
redundancy (1969-1990)

14. Bulletin board system (late 1970s)

15. Ideology

16. Starting this Thanksgiving I
am going to write a
complete Unix-compatible
software system called
GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix),
GNU Project, posted by
and give it away free to
Richard Stallman on everyone who can use it.
September 27, 1983.

17. 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)

18. Information Wants To Be
Free. Information also
wants to be
expensive. ...That tension
Steward Brand (1985) will not go away

19. The Well: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
(1985)
stewart Brand & Larry Brilliant

20. Freedom 0: The freedom
to run the program for any
purpose.
Freedom 1: To study &
change the program
Freedom 2: To redistribute
copies
Freedom 3: Improve &
publically release the
program
Stallman’s Free
software definition
(1986)

21. 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)

22. 1994, the first spam is sent over usenet
From jesus to green cards

23. World wide web
(an open standard)
Hypertext in the wild - Tim Berners-Lee (1990/91)

24. Mosaic web browser (1993)

25. The Net interprets censorship as
damage and routes around it.
John Gilmore (December 1993 quoted in TIME Magazine)

26. Johnson & Post (1996)
Law and Borders - The
Rise of Law in
Cyberspace
Julian Dibbell (1993) A
Rape in Cyberspace
Law in a
database

27. 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

28. Killer apps 1995: Browser wars

29. Dot-com bubble
(1995-2000)

30. The rise and fall of edemocracy
(1995-2000)

31. Code and other laws of cyberspace
Lawrence Lessig (1999)

32. Information wants to be free – the radical
approach

33. Napster 1999 (sued 2000)

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

35. 91 % Access to the Internet at home
83 % Access to broadband at home
7% Never used a computer
Source: Sweden Statistics 2011 (*Individuals aged 16-74)

36. From User
generated
content to
Social Media to
user
entertainment

37. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

38. 2006

39. "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)

40. Normalizing the abnormal

43. Pessimist
talk

48. This is not a phone

49. Always online

50. The end of boredom

51. Are those of
us who
remember
the analogue
age fortunate
or
unfortunate?

52. Remember this?

53. Monotask queuing

54. Not knowing

55. Waiting by THE phone

56. Social networks

57. Dunbar’s 150

58. Stimuli or relations

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

60. Private or Personal

61. “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

62. Performance lifestyle

63. My awesome coffee

64. Truman show delusion

65. What does it
all mean?

66. Old stupidity or
new intelligence?

67. Technology changes us
& we change it

68. Who is in control?

69. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

70. What do the people who control what
we can do, think?

71. What will they let us think?

72. A Squirrel Dying In
Your Front Yard May
Be More Relevant To
Your Interests Right
Now Than People
Dying In Africa
Mark Zuckerberg

73. if you're not
paying for
something,
you're not the
customer;
you're the
product being
sold

74. The weakest link

75. Performance
goes bad…

76. Channels

77. Medical news

79. Swedish employment law

80. The blogging policeman

81. The sexy Headmaster

82. Tough Questions

83. Knowledge vs Opinions?

84. Truth over time?

85. Friending &
The purpose of formality

86. Will the introverts survive?

87. Google docs, gmail, facebook, doodle, slideshare…
Pimping students, selling souls &
losing control

88. Friending, following & Lurking

89. Criticism

90. Remedies

91. RTFM –
read the license.

92. Law (it’s still there).

93. Policies and guidelines

95. Training, seminar, discussion

96. Be that guy!

97. THANKS!

98. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
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