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NICOLAS MALAVÉ 15/03/2011
what is data? can data be concidered as property? authenticity instead of original has a different layer
Video Michael Moss http://video.constantvzw.org/ http://activearchives.or/
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."
Manuals holding things together
exchange of data in Web 2.0 services
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."
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
systemic ambiguity e.g. Microsoft START button to EXIT the system
icons / representation like variation
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
agregation of data, connections we make belong to the company not to us
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
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
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
surveillance of the state negotiations, laws are being made now > lobbying
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