1. Social Media, social #fail: gaining speech,
losing democracy
Mathias Klang
@klang67

2. A cynical mood

3. Form over content, or adapting to a narrative?

4. Enlightenment was triumph
of science over superstition,
state & Church

5. 300 years of rights

6. Killer apps

7. Granting theoretical rights
should have been easier.

8. hollerith

9. Generation zero

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

11. Library task: www

12. Freedom kills: interface wars

13. Social Media: Theoretically possible
becomes inevitable

14. Control in
digital world
Law
Contextual &
programmed social
rules
Architecture
Control in
analogue world

15. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

16. 2006

17. "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)

18. Normalizing the abnormal

19. What wordfeud did

20. Not addiction but tics

21. Technostress & Insomnia

22. Concern 1: are we becoming
stupid?

24. …you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they
will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will
appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be
tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
Plato –
The Phaedrus (ca 370 bc)

25. "Our gadgets have eliminated the need
to remember such things anymore." Foer
Joshua

26. “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

27. The end of boredom

28. The end of curiosity

29. Concern 2: Social relations

30. Private or Personal

31. Dunbar’s 150

32. Stimuli or relations

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

34. Performance lifestyle

35. My amazing coffee

36. Concern 3: information surplus

37. Is Social media a triumph of form
over content?

38. Imagine a world in which every single
person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human
knowledge.
Jimmy Wales

39. meaning

40. Up to 3500 books
Shop and download books in less than 60 seconds

41. Surplus is harder to deal with scarcity...

42. Brain candy vs useful information

43. Information obesity

44. Concern 4: Control

45. Who is in control?

46. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

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

48. What does it
all mean?

49. Does quitting the Internet mean that we will
have big, deep thoughts? Did everyone in
pre Internet days have BDT?

50. Old stupidity or
new intelligence?

51. It is absurd to talk of one animal being
higher than another…we consider those,
where the intellectual faculties most
developed as the highest. – A bee
doubtless would [use] … instincts as a
criteria.
Charles Darwin

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

53. Thank you.

54. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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