commit 7de457b83edc2aac4a2adb1c135ce6c9886434ee
parent 75ff13cefeb578dd7c4e4fcc7ebeb0b2e6c6c7df
Author: ugrnm <ultrageranium@bleu255.com>
Date: Fri Jan 31 16:37:54 +0100
thesis 5 slides done + thesis 1 slide fixes
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diff --git a/transmediale-2020-7-theses/index.html b/transmediale-2020-7-theses/index.html
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ What would be a conference on art and digital culture without a good old discuss
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-MEMES
+# MEMES
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Social media platforms have allowed the democratisation of meme production and have greatly facilitated their circulation.
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ They achieved this by creating software that favours the circulation of viral co
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-Everything is a meme
+# Everything is a meme
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And if you do that for more than a decade, you end up with everything having to be a meme to have any chance at being noticeable in social media.
@@ -207,35 +207,35 @@ But there's something that was completely unforseen...
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-Language
+# Language
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and that was how memes became a language through which collective identities could emerge and be stronger, to the point of creating hostile and toxic environments for some communities. But also made painfully visible how content moderation on coporate social media platforms was always ideologically biased.
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-Moving out of the global village
+# Moving out of the global village
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As a result all those that ended up excluded or harmed in these environments have become interested in migrating to platforms that they can control themselves, reversing the narrative of the universal global village, and the tech industry claim of connecting the world without friction.
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-Moving out of the global village
+# Moving out of the global village
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In a situation where silencing or voluntary exile are the only options, federation opens a third way. It allows a community to engage with conflicts and exchanges with other communities while remaining undiluted in its scope, ideology or interests.
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-Network wars?
+# Network wars?
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But in this situation, we can wonder if this is not going to accentuate thinking along axes of friends or enemies, to the extent that simplistic meme warfare will be replaced with network wars.
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-Network wars?
+# Network wars?
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This is why, if we're going to talk about memes today, we must move the discussion to the level of social media infrastructures. We must talk about these environments that allow, for better or worse, the sedimentation of knowledge. What happens when some specific discourse can accumulate and concentrate online and what kind of dynamics it creates.
@@ -591,22 +591,59 @@ To be sure the fediverse has not solved this, these are hard questions, but at l
# THESIS 5
## Fediverse as a way out of data sharecropping and free labour?
+???
As everyone here is well aware of, corporate social media platforms with their focus on self-gratifying metrics and gamification, are infamous for taking free and and pervasive labour to the next level.
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+class: words, center, middle
+# Surveillance capitalism
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+???
Whatever information is fed into the system, will be used to directly or indirectly create models, reports, and essentially new datasets that have core economic value for the platform owners.
-It's a complete deadlock that will never change because after all users have agreed to that, and even with chronic coverage of social media disasters, no regulatory bodies have seemed to care enough by acting in a significant way in the past 15 years.
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+class: words, center, middle
+# Click OK to consent
+
+???
+It's a complete deadlock that will never change because after all users have agreed to that, and even with chronic coverage of social media disasters, no regulatory bodies have seemed to care enough to start acting in any significant way in the past 15 years.
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+class: words, center, middle
+# Non-democratic social media
-This situation is like this because corporate social media are simply non democratic systems. They are allowed to exist outside of public reach and examination. End of story.
+???
+This situation is like this because corporate social media are simply non democratic systems. And to be fair, they never claimed they were. They are businesses that in current time are allowed to exist outside of public reach and examination. End of story.
-On the other hand, on the Fediverse, discussion about who has acces to what you post, how it is stored, how it circulates, are very transparent. To be sure, problems of scraping, doxxing, exploitation and privacy in general are not solved, but at least everyone is able to voice their perspective. The best way to witness this are on issue trackers that have transformed from a place where bugs are reported, to become public assemblies for programmers *and* non-programmers to deliberate, and most importantly, learn from each other.
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+class: words, center, middle
+# Democratic social media?
+
+???
+On the other hand, on the Fediverse, discussion about who has acces to what you post, how it is stored, how it circulates, are very transparent. To be sure, problems of scraping, doxxing, exploitation and privacy in general are not solved, but at least everyone is able to voice their perspective.
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+class: words, center, middle
+# Pedagogic social media?
+
+???
+The best way to witness this are on issue trackers that have transformed from a place where bugs are reported, to become public assemblies for programmers *and* non-programmers to deliberate, and most importantly, learn from each other.
To Borrow from Robert Gehl talking about alternative social media, the Fediverse is a pedagogical environment.
-But what is gained in pedagogy, empowerement, autonomy, is obviously lost in sustainability in a system that exist outside of the moneytisation of its users. We're not talking about the difficulty of making billions for running a Fediverse instance, we're talking about much more basic issues such as preventing burnout for developers, maintainers, admins, moderators, etc. We're talking about the damage that we created when we've grown to expect that everything online should be magically free.
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+class: words, center, middle
+# Free as in precarity
-So yeah, it's complicated, but at least notbody is pretending otherwise, and these challenges have allowed to re-open discussions about platform coop, public funding of free software, and basically if economic models outside of surveillance capitalism can exist to support non-exploitative solidarity and care across the whole stack.
+???
+But what is gained in pedagogy, empowerement, autonomy, is obviously lost in sustainability in a system that exists outside of the moneytisation of its users. We're not talking about the difficulty of making billions for running a Fediverse instance, we're talking about much more basic issues such as preventing burnout for developers, maintainers, admins, moderators, etc. We're talking about the damage that we created when we've grown to expect that everything online should be automagically free.
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+class: words, center, middle
+# Full stack sustainability
+
+???
+So yeah, it's complicated, but at least notbody is pretending otherwise, and these challenges have allowed to re-open discussions about platform coop, public funding of free software, and basically if economic models outside of surveillance capitalism can exist to support non-exploitative solidarity and care across the whole stack.
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