The unexpected depth of shallow media

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

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999

Goo

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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 klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

www.digital-rights.net

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