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Lasse van den Bosch Christensen
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<p>SKELETON</p>


<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="line-height: 150%">TITLE: I, for one,
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welcome our new Overlords
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<P STYLE="line-height: 150%"><B>General: the thesis will revolve
around a discussion thread on the sale of Google SketchUp and how the
modelers handle this situation.  The discussion thread is named: 'I,
for one, welcome our new Trimble Overlords', Trimble being the new
owners of Sketchup. This title already indicates a distinguished
relationship between users and provider/owner. </B>
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<H2 CLASS="western" STYLE="line-height: 150%">I: INTRO: Community
Panic</H2>
<P STYLE="line-height: 150%"><B>FOCUS: depict the despair/panic in
the modelers-community at the time of sale (of SketchUp). Give
overview of implicated software and platforms. </B>
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  <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>...I deleted all my [...]
models! </I></FONT>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.48in; margin-right: 0.48in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%">
      <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>...I will also delete
all my models! </I></FONT>
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            <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>...It is Over. </I></FONT>
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  <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>...People are starting to
Jump! </I></FONT>
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    <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>...I, for one, welcome
our new [...] Overlords.  </I></FONT>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%">“I wonder that
people aren't adding to their models little prophets carrying 'The
End is Nigh!' placards.”.</P>
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<H2 CLASS="western">A broken trinity: Software, Platform &amp;
Repository</H2>
<P CLASS="first-line-indent" STYLE="text-indent: 0in">For the sake of
overview a brief outline of the different implicated software and
platforms and their relations will be sketched out in the following.<BR><BR>
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<H2 CLASS="western">II: The crowd</H2>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><B>FOCUS: How to
harness the crowd into producing a desired output?  How is the crowd
utilized for production? Main argument revolves around exploitation
of users. </B>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><B>REWIND: google
acquires Sketchup: reasons </B>
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...Already we’ve had hundreds of users create 3D content in
SketchUp and place their models in Google Earth. (A free plug-in
enables you to do this.) What will that virtual world look like when
tens of thousands of users are doing the same?
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">“<SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Crowdsourcing
is outsourcing on steroids” - Jeff Howe (</SPAN>Crowdsourcing - Why
the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business)
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game-theory: design systems which generate outcome for the provider
but enables 'freedom' for the individual. --&gt; leads to next
chapter
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Exploitation critique</P>
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<H2 CLASS="western">III: Users as Users
</H2>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><B>FOCUS: Dependency
on software and platform. Google sells Sketchup. This chapter will
extend above critique and discuss more technical aspects of
rectrictions/regulations</B></P>
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This chapter will discuss how the software and platform is designed
to make the crowd perform a desired task, by introducing certain
confinements and restrictions to the capabilities of the
software/platform and the users 'freedom'.
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Bring in more source-material
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- regulation/law/lessig:
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- Latour: on speedbumps: motivations and limits for the user.
confinement of 'movement'.
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- ganeesh (own note)</P>
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<H2 CLASS="western">IV: More than a user?
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><B>FOCUS: Mutual
dependence? Broaden the perspective of the previous chapters. </B>
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- Enthusiasm amongst the users
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- back to the title of the discussion thread
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- Emergence of subscenes, and cultures some more conform than others
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The platform allows not only for rigid 'upload' to Google earth but
spawns a vivid scene of cultures and subcultures. The users evolves
strong emotional bonds towards the platform, and the content they've
produced, the provider plays a less 'dominant' role since the
production is 'benefiting' the user it self. 
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