Final thematic project

Essay

Topics/ inspiration:

Who owns what we create, tag, link, share, like/dislike. (copyright/ plagiarism)
Who owns our friends list? Network?
Participation Inequality (Nielsen)
Geert Lovink: Tag, connect, friend, link, share, tweet. These are not terms that signal any form of collective intelligence, creativity or networked socialism. They are directives from the central software committee ... if your not a interesting individual, your participation is not really interesting. Data clouds, after all, are clouds; they fade away.
If facebook where a country it would be the forth largest in the world. however more then half of the so called "citizens" are not active in any sort of way thereby creating one huge "gohst" country
Social = not social
Open and free = censored (religion, freedom of speech)
Big companies
Free/ not free
New world is created including a new economy
New laws/ real world vs digital world.
A free workforce
Distributed vs centralized
An empty room, you bring the information but their is someone else controlling it.
Barriers on internet
censorship (North Korea/ China/ Gambling/ Pornography/ Universities)
Geolocations enable internet borders.
Laws/regulations
THERE ARE SUCH THINGS AS BORDERS ON INTERNET
Restrictions/ firewalls/ access
Just because it is "cyberspace" does not mean all rules regulations and laws of the "real world" can be ignored
Facebook terms of service:

Paul Garrin, Internet tyranny (Das Netz)
Tiziana Terranova
Geert Lovink
Ned Rossiter

Topic for project/ inspiration

Inspiration:

Social media revolution

Ideas:

Person enters exhibition, at the entrance a) He registers by giving his cell-phone number, b) We put something on him that helps our system locate him. We then send blue tooth messages about the exhibition according to which room s/he enters, or spam, welcome and goodbye messages, letting them beware of the borders. If they go through certain borders they will not get certain information. In a room we will have a map that projects and displays activity/ no activity and the position of the visitors in the room.