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Law and disorder in new & social mediaMathias Klang
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced… to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes … and serves as a social mediator of relations between people.
Norms from above
Power to the people: Democracy
Power of the technocracy
Socio-legal regulation
Law
Contextual & programmed social
rules
Architecture
Technology makes society
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
Speech (hate, defamation, insult, sex) Integrity
Copyright
But first technological change – why it matters
Game changer: storage
Production costs
Music unrecorded prior to 1857
What does this mean?
Game changer: communication
Digitalization
Connectivity
Storage
Devices
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
Technology changing society, but social rules slow to evolve…
speech
2:1 § Varje medborgare är gentemot det allmänna tillförsäkrad1. yttrandefrihet: frihet att i tal, skrift eller bild eller på annat sätt meddela upplysningar samt uttrycka tankar, åsikter och känslor…
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire
…300 år sedan…
"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!"
Uni student bomb threat
Navy instructor pilots lose flying status for Lake Tahoe dip
privacy
Surveillance: gaze from above
Power relationship
Everybody exhibitionism
We used to leak information
Compartmentalization
Analog social norms
Protection from the outer gaze
End of privacy?
The Hive-mind
If you have done nothing wrong,
you have nothing to fear
We have (theoretical) control over Big Brother
If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold
copyright
• Theater• Music• Film• Art• Buildings• Photos• Litterature
70 years post mortem
Terms of protection (Sweden)
Regulating the future
Between law and technology
Contextual & programmed social
rules
personalization
The internet is shows us what it thinks that we want to see – not what we need to see Eli Pariser
Identity & Information junk food.
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
Technology is not inherently democratic
Law without infrastructure
Problem 1: We are stupid
Problem 2: We don’t know what we don’t know
Problem 3: difference between who I want to be & who I am…
Problem 4: The keepers of algorithms know this
There have always been gatekeepers.
We have (theoretical) control over Big Brother
A Squirrel Dying In Your Front Yard May Be More Relevant To
Your Interests Right Now Than People
Dying In AfricaMark Zuckerberg
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
