the power to negotiate

The Power to Negotiate

Trebor ScholzDepartment of Media Studytrebor@thing.net

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0

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Sociable web media make people easier to use

but we can’t let them (and them in us) get the best of us.

communal negotiating power FB (741.000 join group)

p2p solutions

individuals making money (ebay, Amazon.com)

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The Wanted Gaze

The Internet is the culmination of seamless control that now reaches into all of social sphere, home and workplace alike.

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Constitutional right

The privacy obligation/ expected privacy

Harm done by thin privacy

Privacy

http://tinyurl.com/3x3rzz

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http://tinyurl.com/2g6mz5

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http://tinyurl.com/2goz45

Daniel Perl

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http://tinyurl.com/yulvuk

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http://tinyurl.com/34n6an

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http://tinyurl.com/2w7lgn

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March 27, 2006LAStudents organize 15000 people for immigration protest through MySpace and SMS

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8 days after a video was posted showing how to pick the lock in 30 seconds using a pen, Kryptonite recalled 380,000 locks

Businesses can’t stop the conversation...so they try to harness it for your benefit

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Rights cannot be enforced without power.

You need to have real rights, not merely on paper

The struggle for the 8-hour day

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Google Bombing16

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In September Facebook launched a

"news feed" feature causing protest and

responses by 741,000 users who joined the

Students Against Facebook News Feed group.

http://tinyurl.com/22h7cm18

http://daywithoutfacebook.blogspot.com/

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http://tinyurl.com/etj7m

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208288769

741.000 members of FB group in September 2006

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http://tinyurl.com/y3fedz

“Even though I wish I hadn't made so many of you angry, I am glad we got to hear you,” he wrote. “And I am also glad that News Feed highlighted all these groups so people could find them and share their opinions with each other as well.”

http://tinyurl.com/2n9mhl

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http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208288769

741.000 members of FB group in September 2006

ease of information flow

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http://tinyurl.com/2hjwal

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http://tinyurl.com/ywps4k

“Every MySpace user I know is absolutely sick of the advertising onslaught and would leave if they could. But they feel trapped because they have so much content invested there, not to mention all their friends.”

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What does a FB group achieve?

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http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2495777020027

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2495777020028

BOYCOTT PRODUCTS MADE IN CHINA

URGENT UPDATE: Injured Protesters being BURNED ALIVE

how to convince 2008 olympic athletes not to go to CHINA?

should we send troops to burma to free the people

Who wants to pay Blackwater to get rid of the Burma regime?

Monks need to give up non-violence

Wear RED Strings For Burma!

One constructive idea on how to pressure the Chinese government into action

What can I do for Burma?

Start Non-English "Support the Monks" Groups

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Henry Jenkins:

People are empowered in their role as consumers

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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2007/05/between_a_rock.html

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Some feel that users have too much control over content, allowing sensationalism and misinformation to thrive, blowing unsupported claims out of proportion while quickly exposing very many people to these opinion pieces.

http://tinyurl.com/2u3ztshttp://tinyurl.com/39g279http://tinyurl.com/37vx5w

It has been reported that the top 100 Digg users control 56% of Digg's front page content and that a niche group of just twenty individuals had submitted 25% of the front page content.

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Digg.com co-founder Kevin Rose

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http://tinyurl.com/2u3ztshttp://tinyurl.com/39g279http://tinyurl.com/37vx5w

http://tinyurl.com/2v9ppzhttp://tinyurl.com/2v9ppz

On May 1, 2007 an article appeared on Digg’s

homepage that contained the encryption key

for the AACS digital rights management

protection of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

http://tinyurl.com/2v9ppz

“Digital Boston Tea Party”

http://tinyurl.com/2cg9hm

http://tinyurl.com/2rszvk

Digg, removed the submissions and banned contributors. The removals were seen by many users as a capitulation to corporate interests and an assault on free speech. The Digg community staged a wide-spread revolt. One of the Digg users referred to it as a "Digital Boston Tea Party." Digg’s response:

“[A]fter seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.” —Kevin Rose

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http://tinyurl.com/322lyy

It was significant that in a well-organized effort, 8-30 million people in 800 cit ies worldwide simultaneously showed their defiance of the war in Iraq on February 15, 2003. The Internet served as organizational tool. March 19 - The first American bombs drop on Baghdad, Iraq. March 20- the invasion starts.

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Is there an asymmetry in the dependency

between users and companies?

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Enhanced Individual Autonomy

Newly expanded practical freedom: to act and cooperate to improve the experience of democracy, justice, development, critical culture, and community

WoN p 9

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Enhanced Autonomy

1) Improves capacity to do more for and by themselves

2) Enhances capacity to do more in loose commonality with others (without the hierarchies of traditional organizations)

3) Improves capacity of individuals to do more in organizations that are outside the market sphere

WoN p 8

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Income streams from core intellectual capital

Google Adsense

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