User:Natasa Siencnik/lectures/malave/
Nicolas Malavé
Workshop 15/03/2011
Project
Graph of top ten words over time
WE - NOUS
YOU - VOUS
PRIVACY - privée, privé
SHARE - partager
CONTROL - contrôle, contrôler
TRUST - confiance, confier
ADVERTISMENT - réclame, publicité
PLEASE - s'il vous plaît
Lecture
what is data?
can data be concidered as property?
authenticity instead of original
has a different layer
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Video Michael Moss
http://video.constantvzw.org/
http://activearchives.or/
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Gérard Genette: "Seuils"
paratext is a threshold
everything that is written around the book (cover, introductio by editor,...)
periphery of text, but influence how we perceive the book / main text
> metadata
> context?
"A zone between and off-text, a zone not only of transition but also of transaction."
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Manuals
holding things together
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exchange of data in Web 2.0 services
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Andrew Goffey, Matthew Fuller: "Systemic Ambiguity"
"Crucially, systemic ambiguity is as much about the production as it is about the deciphering of signs.
Becoming able to read the shifting balance and distribution of forces in in fluctuating patterns of uncertain signs is one thing.
Being able to produce such signs, to turn them to your advantage, is another."
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reduction of meaning > but therefore it can be sold
stupidity of the system > ambiguity present
we feel superiority in relationship
we don't have the access to context of interpretation
e.g. FACEBOOK, reduction of friendship relationship
we give the system the right to use for their sake > advertisment
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systemic ambiguity
e.g. Microsoft START button to EXIT the system
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icons / representation
like variation
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YOUTUBE
i upload a video, they can use it to advertise the platform
but they are not entitled to use it as an own product
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agregation of data, connections we make belong to the company not to us
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IRAN DEMONSTRATIONS
asked to identify people on Flickr pictures
hacked twitter accounts of Iranian people
extract who was tweeting / retweeting when / from where
very sensitive information that influences people's lives
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DIGITAL ECONOMY
legislation around data policy
interaction with commercial services
goverments support this system because it means producing wealth (market)
busy with fighting online piratery, but not thinking about other things
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amonisation
enforcement of digital property
IP-RED law European Union
ISP > control the traffic of data
and also go further, see what is inside the packets
gathering meta-data and improve services, make own services
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surveillance of the state
negotiations, laws are being made now > lobbying
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OPEN STREET MAP
walk around with GPS to mesure or capture a field >> map
GPS to write like a pen meta-data > taged, added later as river, street etc.
GPS to write instead of read the meta-data
write terms of use with a collective of people (team)
agreed to open database licence for the data / content itself
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