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"TRANSCRIPT
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