[Air-L] article for list submission

Peter Timusk ptimusk at sympatico.ca
Tue Apr 12 23:54:12 PDT 2011


Just on the interface: I think it is simple enough and entertaining enough
with some sex (as in poking your friends) to allow those without great
amounts of computer literacy and those with more to find it appealing. I am
not sure of these points, they are just guesses but I think that the
Interface is everything. I can not stay on myspace pages long because the
adverts are less subtle and the content too varied. Keith Richards played
successfully with artistic limits. 

One thing I am more sure of from reading ACM studies of facebook, likely
very few people in first year university changed their default privacy
settings in 2005 on Facebook, in fact less than 2% did in one study. They
were wide open for stalking because of location and time place sharing. This
study used facebook itself to gather data. I am not sure if more traditional
data gathering surveys are digging deep enough into facebook with enough off
line demography.

Two I am fairly sure that a former CIA director invested heavily in facebook
meaning we can consider the data owned by the spooks.

Three how much will we here in Canada rise up and will we use facebook or
twitter or does Che's statements still apply that we have too large and well
fed a middle class for any sort of revolution? Our poor and beaten won't be
heard from.





Peter Timusk
at571 at ncf.ca
ptimusk at sympatico.ca
web: www.crystalcomputing.net
blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org

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Hi, two comments: First, a superpower acts more or less in concert; Fb is
more of a collocation, much like a phone network. Second, it might be my
bias, but I think the 'Arab Spring' etc. would have been pretty much the
same without Fb and indeed without the net; we tend far too much to create a
kind of technological functionalism as explanatory. Reaganism credited the
US for the collapse of the Soviet Union; to me, there's a relation. As you
point out (denigration of Afghans), Fb is more a network of networks (much
like the older description of the net itself); it doesn't act in unity, and
it's very often not on the ground in terms of geopolitics. I'd think a
fruitful direction would be to consider the locus of Fb's political power in
the interface itself, which is more or less the same for everyone; is there
a good, perhaps psychoanalytical analysis of 'friendship' in relation to the
software for example?

Thanks, Alan (over my head here)


On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Carmela Baranowska wrote:

> hi,
>
> Please find a recent article I wrote on 'Facebook is the New Superpower'
for The Conversation:
>
> http://theconversation.edu.au/articles/facebook-is-the-new-superpower-
> 894
>
> I would like to submit it to the list. Comments and disagreements welcome
and appreciated!
>
> all the best,
> Carmela Baranowska
> Lecturer in Media
> Australian Catholic University
> Carmela.Baranowska at acu.edu.au
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