on the ontological necessity of the multidisciplinary development of the web

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Talk on the ontological necessity of the multidisciplinary development of the web at the panel CLOSER/WEBIST 2014 on "social, political and economic implications of cloud and web"

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on the ontological necessity of the multidisciplinary development of the web

Fabien Gandon, http://fabien.info

CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:

“social, political and economic implications of cloud and web?”

CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:

“social, political and economic implications of cloud and web?”

read-write web: global n-n interactions new means of social interaction and social relations, global conversation

fostering self (re)organization, collaboration, movements

active social mediasstore, process, reuse, enrich, route, managethe information far beyond mere communication

subject of sociological studysociology of the internet, internet as a sociological probe.

social constructs impactedmaking boundaries even more porous

bridging scales e.g. local global

strong ties support, weak ties fostering

identityone, which one, many ones?

over socialization?

over adaptation & filter bubble(c.f. Eli Pariser)

89 years for telephone to reach 150 million users, 38 years for television to reach same number,14 years for the cell-phones,8 years for the internet,7 years for Apple iPod,5 years for Facebook,3 years Instagram

faster and faster

acceleration and alienation

« social » bookmark ?massive socialization of objects & activities

e.g. sharing more and more• cars (blablacar, zilokaoto, voiturelib)

• sailing (vogavecmoi.com, co-navigation.fr, equipier.fr)

• taxi (provoiturage.fr)

• packages (expediezentrevous.com)

• parking (monsieurparking.com)

• housing (AirBnB, Couchsurfing)

• storage (costockage.fr)

• funding (kisskissbankbank, kickstarter)

• offices (coworking)

• food (colunching.com, cookening.com)

• sport (Unlish.com, Cleec.com, kikourou.net)

• washing machine (lamachineduvoisin.fr)

• clothes (pretachanger.fr, vestiairecollective.com)

• worms (réseau lombricompos)

CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:

“social, political and economic implications of cloud and web?”

campaigns, donations, recruiting…

e-governmentdigital interactions between a government and citizens

managing enlarged democratic bandwidth

direct lines to politicians ?

1000 millions

China: 1 600 millions

India: 1 200 millions

acebook

DATA.GOV

read, search and compare constitutionswww.constituteproject.org

web activism

defend the webonline free speech, neutrality, privacy

a never ending fight, always be vigilant.

web index: the state of the webcountry-level data on web usage, readiness, and human impact

CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:

“social, political and economic implications of cloud and web?”

high impact on knowledge intensive work

e.g. reuter & stock market

new giants

1997

now

new markets e.g. domain names

new markets e.g. world wide word market

economy of attentionselling available brain time & communication puzzle

© Eyetools & Enquiro

impacted traditional business

from bookstores to amazon.co.ukcustomer relation, communication, business integration, etc.

gobal accesseven for SMEs

¥€$ you pay as you ‘enter’privacy as a money

data is the new oilwhere does our data flow?

oil barrels

data bases

building blocs for innovation“prosumers” document/evaluate/suggest/design/… products

CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:

“social, political and economic implications of cloud and web?”

yes and...

psychological: profilingour inner self

transportation

ethical: keep watching?

educational: e-learning, teaching the web

health

United States Flu Activity - Influenza estimate ● Google Flu Trends ● U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

pangaea-wide webgeo-graphic, -politic, -cultural, etc.

meteorology

legalto read or not to read…terms and conditions of web applications

32 241 words18 301 words15 352 words 36 275 words19 972 words11 195 words

http://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/length-of-website-terms-and-conditions/

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massive interaction designergonomics in hybrid web communities

moral social machineshumans in the loop… but not any loop

linguisticsنشاطشیرینShirin Neshat

digital

http://drunks-and-lampposts.com/2012/06/13/graphing-the-history-of-philosophy/

http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/07/03/mapping-how-programming-languages-influenced-each-other-according-to-wikipedia/

http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/07/04/mapping-related-musical-genres-on-wikipediadbpedia-with-gephi/

a global observatory

scientific practices: data, collaboration, publication

REALLY?! HOW EXACTLY?

the web has more than 2.1 billion direct users and impacts everyone indirectly

NASA ©digital divide, who can afford an internet connection?

cultural creation, diffusion

language and geographical coverage

©Denny Vrandečić

divide propagates in all dimensions toosocial, democratic, economic, health, educational, etc.

CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:

“social, political and economic implications of cloud and web?”

yes and...psychological, educational, biological, philosophical, linguistic, mathematical, ecological, cultural, legal, medical, historical, interactional, geographical, sexual, artistic, mediatic, dietetic, e-tc.

hypertext ?

the web never was an hypertextcloser to resource-oriented hyper program

identify what exists on the webhttp://my-site.fr

identify,on the web, what exists

http://animals.org/this-zebra

references to the web

« Willie bus ©»

new accesses,new channels.

« Monkey Light Pro ©»

any thing

world-wide wayas the web is spreading in the world,

the world is spreading in the web.

world-wild web

the natural complexity of our world contaminates the web

wwwmmm

world wide web

massively multidisciplinary method

by its very nature the web calls fora multidisciplinary development.

Fabien Gandon, http://fabien.info

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