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purplekimchi

Unintended - and Anti-Social - Consequences of Social Media Use - 0 views

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  • Simultaneously, though, we must understand that Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other profit-driven companies are not neutral platforms for these conversations.
  • tech industrialists are the Rockefellers of this century, with profit, not innovation or the social good, as their primary motive
  • The lobby group FWD.us, brought to us by founders and investors of Facebook, LinkedIn and Spotify, among others, famously supported the Keystone XL oil pipeline with millions in pro-pipeline advertising
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  • Peers.org, an initiative launched by "sharing economy" companies like the home-subletting site Airbnb, have resisted government regulation, even as disability advocates fear services like the "rideshare" service Uber are increasing inequality between people with and without disabilities
  • they're doing everything they can to avoid paying taxes
  • gentrification
  • San Francisco has lost at least 40 percent of its black population since 1990, more than any other major city
  • But the fact is tech companies continue the practices of devaluation of racialized and feminized labor on a global scale
  • There are no easy answers
  • Another answer is for tech workers to, in tech lingo, disrupt the industry's exploitation by developing alternative tools for connecting us all. Firefox, LibreOffice, PirateBay, Wikipedia and WordPress are all widely used technology-based tools created by organizations that don't count profit as their foremost objective.
  • More important, we can organize with and support the media and activists that already are doing this work, like the Bay Area's POOR Magazine
  • purplekimchi on 06 Mar 14
     
    A more nuanced approach to the social media is anti-social argument
remi469

http://kimknight.com/readings/bush-aswemaythink.pdf - 0 views

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shared by remi469 on 16 Jan 14 - No Cached
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      remi469 on 16 Jan 14
       
      I see this line of text from 'As We May think' (Vannevar Bush, pg 3) and I think, Google Glass! Well, a primitive version but quite Visionary. #emac6300
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      remi469 on 16 Jan 14
       
      "On a pair of ordinary glasses is a square of fine lines near the top of one lens, where it is out of the way of ordinary vision. When an object appears in that square, it is lined up for its picture."
  • Katie Lopez on 16 Jan 14
     
    Remi, I completely agree with you. Then as soon as I read your comment I came across this article. The way they describe Facebook for Google Glass sounds much like that line from the reading. http://blog.hootsuite.com/wearable-tech-series/
  • remi469 on 18 Jan 14
     
    Katie, thanks. That was an insightful post. I never thought much about the Google Glass medium being essentially visual. Text heavy media sites may have to adjust accordingly. This line from the article addressed it. "Google Glass is primarily a visual medium. It is a device reliant on visuals, gestures, and voice. For this reason, text-focused social media does not complement Glass. Do not expect to read long drawn out blog posts, or a constant barrage of tweets. Even so, text has its place-mainly to augment the visuals."
purplekimchi

You don't want your privacy: Disney and the meat space data race - Tech News and Analysis - 4 views

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shared by purplekimchi on 19 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Lari Tanner on 20 Jan 14
     
    Who knew Disney was such a control freak? I do have to say it is scary to think that everything we do is being tallied and put on some sort of spreadsheet. Even scarier is the fact that we are willing to give our information away or rather give it away cheaply. Target stores recent problems don't have anything on the geotagging that goes on with push notifications, etc. on our smartphones.
  • Allison Dupuis on 21 Jan 14
     
    It'll be interesting to see companies' approach to big data as more and more businesses invest their money, people and time into analytics. How they collect it, their product design and marketing strategies will all determine whether or not people find their invasion helpful or inappropriate. For example, IBM tells me that their data is eliminating crime from certain areas, so whatever data they've collected from me, they've collected it from criminals too. Facebook allows me to see only adds that reflect my interests and search history, so then I don't have to see ads that don't apply to me. And now Disney wants to give me a better experience and a band I can keep to always remember my time there. Win. Win. Win. The NSA has some stiff competition and maybe if they had a strong marketing department that could flip their message and give customers the rewards they are constantly seeking, I bet people would come around. Maybe it would look something like this Parks and Rec campaign (just kidding): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNCaZT94mg8
  • Carlos Harleaux on 21 Jan 14
     
    There are a lot of interesting and moving parts here. I think this is a smart tool for Disney to use. It sounds like the perfect marriage between finance (getting sales figures in a more organized fashion) and marketing (what people are buying/swiping) that will feed into the best consumer insights information possible. As the article suggests, I do believe this is a more sophisticated (and invasive) form of consumer data gathering like the typical grocery store rewards card. One of the burning questions I have from this though, is will children really be able to swipe everything in sight for purchase? If so, that could mean smiles for Disney and frowns and frustration for parents. The design looks very similar to the Nike Fuelband, and is appealing to the eye. I can see the pros and cons for this one, but overall I wonder what the profit to spend margins would actually be for these MagicBands.
norma martin

You Can Now Donate Your Voice to People Who Can't Speak | Smart News | Smithsonian - 0 views

www.smithsonianmag.com/...ow-donate-your-voice-180950220

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  • norma martin on 24 Mar 14
     
    An interesting way to give....digital realm
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Help Transcribe Diaries From World War I | Smart News | Smithsonian - 0 views

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  • norma martin on 24 Mar 14
     
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