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D'coda Dcoda

Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality [24Feb11] - 0 views

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4AR

shared by D'coda Dcoda on 26 May 11 - No Cached
  • The power of social media to burrow dramatically into our everyday lives as well as the near ubiquity of new technologies such as mobile phones has forced us all to conceptualize the digital and the physical; the on- and off-line.
  • And some have a bias to see the digital and the physical as separate; what I am calling digital dualism. Digital dualists believe that the digital world is “virtual” and the physical world “real.” This bias motivates many of the critiques of sites like Facebook and the rest of the social web and I fundamentally think this digital dualism is a fallacy. Instead, I want to argue that the digital and physical are increasingly meshed, and want to call this opposite perspective that implodes atoms and bits rather than holding them conceptually separate augmented reality.
  • geo-tagging (think Foursquare or Facebook Places), street view, face recognition, the Wii controller and the fact that sites like Facebook both impact and are impacted by the physical world to argue that “digital and material realities dialectically co-construct each other.” This is opposed to the notion that the Internet is like the Matrix, where there is a “real” (Zion) that you leave when you enter the virtual space (the Matrix) -an outdated perspective as Facebook is increasingly real and our physical world increasingly digital.
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  • I have used this perspective of augmentation to critque dualism when I see it. For instance, last year I posted a rebuttal to the digital-dualist critique of so-called “slacktivism” that claimed “real” activism is being traded for a cyber-based slacker activism. No, cyber-activism should be seen in context with physical world activism and how they interact. Taken alone, yes, much of the cyber-activism would not amount to much. But used in conjunction with offline efforts, it can be powerful. And, of course, my point is much, much easier to make with the subsequent uprisings in the Arab world that utilize both digital and physical organizing. This augmented dissent will be a topic for another post
  • conceptually splitting so-called “first” and “second” selves creates a “false binary” because “people are enmeshing their physical and digital selves to the point where the distinction is becoming increasingly irrelevant.” [
Dan R.D.

The Privacy Dilemma - Facebook, like the internet, is not a private place. [28Apr10] - 0 views

ddrrnt.amplify.com/...nternet-is-not-a-private-place

critique facebook privacy trends

shared by Dan R.D. on 29 Apr 10 - Cached

  • Privacy is ultimately the social media denizen’s dilemma. So, are you building a glass house, or a fortified castle?

    Amplify’d from socialmediatoday.com

    There there are the folks who are appalled that people could be so amazingly stupid to think their information was “just between friends” in the first place.

    The internet is not a private place. Simple as that.
    Does that make their new changes acceptable? Certainly not. Why? Because they portrayed it as a safe haven and now they’ve switched gears when the majority of their users weren’t looking.
    They may not be so savvy. So do us all a favor. Share Peter’s post with those people. Share the link to the video below. Help get the word out that if you want something private don’t say it on the internet.
    See more at socialmediatoday.com
  • Dan R.D. on 29 Apr 10
     
    Privacy is ultimately the social media denizen's dilemma. So, are you building a glass house, or a fortified castle? On a side note, this evening I rapidly clipped this article during a demonstration for @UOSPJ (The University of Oregon's Society of Professional Journalists Chapter). It was a half-assed effort, but regardless of the quality of the following clip: they love Amplify.
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