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What the Myspace Generation Should Know About Working for Free
Trebor ScholzAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Media StudySUNY at Buffalo
MITApril 28, 2008
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2007
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Exploitation of Labor on the Social Web
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Exploitation of Labor on the Social Web
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Exploitation of Labor on the Social Web
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Andrew Ross, 2003
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1999
1995
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16,000
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http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Exhibition/2006/ConnectingWorld/artist.html
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consumer
user/customizer
participant
producer
1980s 1990s 2004 2007
art on corporate platforms
artist as cultural context provider
net art
folkloristic mass creativity
artist as tool builder
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In Second Life, the consumer actually co–innovates and coproduces
the products they consume.
Tapscott and Williams, 2007. Wikinomics, p. 126
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Чмо = Insignificant individualAbbreviation for человек московской области
person from the Moscow suburbs
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Women aged 25-34
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1986
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Steve Chen, Chad Hurley October 09, 2006
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Google Adsense Data Mining
Alpha Users
Social Life ExitBanner Ads
communication facilities
user-submitted content
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Google 16,805 (Dec 31, 2007)
CBS: 32,160BBC (UK alone): 28,000
Yahoo 13,600 (Oct 18, 2007)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
Employees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlehttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2006/snapshots/1529.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC
AOL8,000
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The key is managing the marriage of money and nonmoney
without making nonmoney feel like a sucker.
In the YouTube economy, everyone is free to play, but only a few reap the rewards.
Nicholas Carr, 2008. The Big Switch, p. 247.
Yochai Benkler, 2006. Wealth of Networks
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Lawrence Lessig, WSJ: May 2007
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GoogleNewsCorpYahoo
1.1 bn users
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captive community
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from: Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
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ethical dune walking
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Pleasure of creation
Friendships
Social status/micro-fameLife experience
Memories
Referral
JobsDates
Greater good
Social enjoyment
Identity
Informal mentorship
Market research
Unwanted content (ads)
Breach of the social contract
Spam
Monetization of presence, labor, life itself
Capture of community“Glass customer”
Job losses
Centralization: “Berlusconi effect”
Opt-Out DefaultExpectations for quick response
Time
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Example: Facebook’s Beacon
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Opt-out as default
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The Power of Users
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Sky NewsApril 2008 citizen submission
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entering all your books as labor but social contract: but data go free, privacy |
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Kevin Killian1500 reviews
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Challenge and detourn the complex power dynamics of the Social Web
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THANK YOU
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