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Truth, lies & social mediaMathias Klang
The easy part: social media
How did we get here?
Flickr
2000
2001
2002
2003 2005
2004 2006
Wikipedia
Blog
ger 1
999
Second Life
My Space
Skype
Digg
Ning
YouTube
Spotify
Google c:a 1998
2008
2007 2009
Farmville
iphone
WikileaksAngry Birds
Theoretical rights become inevitable
practice
Warning! “Multiplication can produce powerful numbers”
Copyriot (Rasmus Fleischer)
The hard part: What is truth?
What is an expert…?
Monopoly on knowledgeSharp division between readers and writers
Monopoly on truth
Are we Biologically programmed to seek authority?
Stories of “truth” And problems with technology
1. Old truth
Spanish caseEl riesgo de querer ser esbelta (El Pais 1991)
2. opinions
"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"
3. entrapment: the seduction of technology
4. Contextual truth
5. Filter bubbles
Do you know who you are?
compartmentalization
Social media & anti-compartmentalization
Thinking for yourself
It will be very hard for people to watch or consume something that has not in some sense been tailored for them. Eric Schmidt, Google
Personalization is trivialization
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
The right to be forgotten
6. A neutral point of view: Wikipedia
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.
Jimmy Wales
Be careful what you wish for'Cause you just might get it
And if you get it then you just might not know
What to do wit' it…
Eminem
Wikipedia: Neutral Point of view
Burkina faso
OUAGADOUGOU[citation needed]
So what’s new about all this?
the expert is dead, long live the experts.
We are all experts now?
Influence systems (klout) Measuring what?Illusion of experts
Source criticism (källkritik)From avoiding plagiarism independent thinking
Question why, how & where things are being said.
In moderation… abuse of power may cause social #fail
Just because you're paranoidDon't mean they're not after you.
Kurt Cobain
Thank you.
Information• All images from www.flickr.com (unless specifically stated)
• Image & licensing info in the notes section of slides
• Presentation licensed: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
• The presentation can be downloaded from: www.slideshare.net/klang
• More information about me: www.techrisk.se & www.digital-rights.net
• Mathias Klang. [email protected] or @klang67
