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Jovan Maud

Nothing is private once Facebook gets into your wallet - 0 views

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facebook privacy commerce capitalism

shared by Jovan Maud on 28 Apr 14 - Cached
  • Capitalism requires fluidity – the transformation of static objects into cashable objects. By making money social and digital it becomes more fluid.
  • While the discourse is about empowering the working and immigrant poor to be able to send money home without costly fees, it is really about financialising a new market, the formerly private acts that are being unlocked by social media.
  • This is financialisation masked as the “sharing economy"
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  • Facebook has been successful in inviting us to volunteer our free digital labour in producing one of the world’s most valuable companies. Some lovingly call this “participatory culture” while I and others call it exploitation.
  • Or worse, this is an attempt to “gamify” money management.
  • The more our social life is monitored and then digitised, the easier it is to hoard, gamify, and monetise any profitable crumbs.
  • Online payment isn’t the problem. Facebook, Google, and others who monopolise and monetise our digital lives on closed centralised systems are. The financialisation of our private lives as well as unwarranted, indiscriminate, illegal, bulk surveillance flourish in these spaces where corporations and governments gain direct access to our private lives.
Etienne Mahler

Interviewing For The 'World's Toughest Job' - Digg - 2 views

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interview emotion

shared by Etienne Mahler on 12 May 14 - No Cached
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  • Wait until the end. This takes a turn and you're going to want to call home afterward.
  • Etienne Mahler on 12 May 14
     
    In one way this is just another viral video. In another, I would say it is a nice example of how emotions can be transferred via the web. It is an fake-interview via some skype-like software in which people are being pranked. At the end though, it shows very well how emotions might be carried not only within the video but also to the viewer.
  • Jovan Maud on 13 May 14
     
    Yes, and it's also a piece of viral marketing, showing how companies are getting better and better at using this format to elicit and manipulate emotions. Which is not to take anything away from the power of webcams to transfer emotions.
Jovan Maud

Why are we sleeping with our phones? | Anthropology in Practice, Scientific American Bl... - 1 views

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phones public sphere privacy home

shared by Jovan Maud on 23 Jun 14 - No Cached
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  • Jovan Maud on 23 Jun 14
     
    More on the curious intimacy of mobile phones in our lives and the role they play in mediating the distinction between "public" and "private".
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