ElectroSmog SkillShare: Tools and Models for Online Collaboration

Collaborative Futures A free collaborative book about the future of free collaboration @ Transmediale 2010 NYC Book Launch / Upgrade NY @Eyebeam / March 4th 2010

Introduction

Transmediale 2010: Futurity Now!

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The authors ✤ Adam Hyde - Floss Manuals, artist ✤ Mike Linksvayer - VP Creative Commons ✤ Marta Peirano - Copyﬁght, journalist ✤ Alan Toner - Steal This Film, researcher ✤ Michael Mandiberg - Eyebeam, artist ✤ Mushon Zer-Aviv - Eyebeam, designer ✤ Aleksander Erkalovic (programmer) - Floss Manuals

What Are Book Sprints?

...but this book is not procedural "Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act." Tom Clancy

How This Book Is Written

5 Samples

Sample 1: Open Relationships

Sample 1: Open Relationships ✤ Like romantic relationships, open collaborations are based on mutual trust

Sample 1: Open Relationships ✤ Like romantic relationships, open collaborations are based on mutual trust ✤ In an open relationship a different social pact governs the relationship.

Sample 1: Open Relationships ✤ Like romantic relationships, open collaborations are based on mutual trust ✤ In an open relationship a different social pact governs the relationship. ✤ Make sure you cover the basics: coordination, transparency, attribution, autonomy, generosity, respect and freedom of movement.

Sample 2: Anonymous / Problematizing Attribution

Sample 3: Sharing is the First Step

Sample 3: Sharing is the First Step ✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration

Sample 3: Sharing is the First Step ✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration ✤ "This is who I am. This is what I did."

Sample 3: Sharing is the First Step ✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration ✤ "This is who I am. This is what I did." ✤ identity + social objects = direct attribution, one to many

Sample 3: Sharing is the First Step ✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration ✤ "This is who I am. This is what I did." ✤ identity + social objects = direct attribution, one to many ✤ social objects + identities = indirect attribution, many to many

Sample 3: Sharing is the First Step

Sample 3: Sharing is the First Step ✤ Adding a layer of coordination:

Sample 3: Sharing is the First Step ✤ Adding a layer of coordination: ✤ "use the #iranelections hashtag on your tweets"

Sample 3: Sharing is the First Step ✤ Adding a layer of coordination: ✤ "use the #iranelections hashtag on your tweets" ✤ social objects + coordination = new (collaborative) social object

Sample 3: Sharing is the First Step ✤ Adding a layer of coordination: ✤ "use the #iranelections hashtag on your tweets" ✤ social objects + coordination = new (collaborative) social object ✤ “Edits” (Wikis) or “commits” (open source) loose their individual meaning outside the collaborative context

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts: ✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social.

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts: ✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social. ✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation:

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts: ✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social. ✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation: ✤ Wikis and version control systems: contrib+user+time

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts: ✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social. ✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation: ✤ Wikis and version control systems: contrib+user+time ✤ “diff”

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts: ✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social. ✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation: ✤ Wikis and version control systems: contrib+user+time ✤ “diff” ✤ Lower the friction but does not eliminate it

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Social Contracts and Mediation:

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Social Contracts and Mediation: ✤ First Wikipedia edit determines the tone of the article - leadership

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Social Contracts and Mediation: ✤ First Wikipedia edit determines the tone of the article - leadership ✤ Social contract - collaborative goal: to make the article more accurate and factual

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Social Contracts and Mediation: ✤ First Wikipedia edit determines the tone of the article - leadership ✤ Social contract - collaborative goal: to make the article more accurate and factual ✤ “If you're going against what the majority of people perceive to be reality, you're the one who's crazy” http://tiny.booki.cc/?wikiality

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Wikiality:

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Wikiality: ✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked)

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Wikiality: ✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked) ✤ Wikipedia banned stephencolbert - an unveriﬁed celebrity name

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Wikiality: ✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked) ✤ Wikipedia banned stephencolbert - an unveriﬁed celebrity name ✤ Vandalism?

Sample 4: Coordination & Contexts ✤ Wikiality: ✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked) ✤ Wikipedia banned stephencolbert - an unveriﬁed celebrity name ✤ Vandalism? ✤ Or just a collaboration under a different social contract?

Sample 5: On Intentional collaboration

Sample 5: On Intentional collaboration ✤ www.thru-you.com

Sample 5: On Intentional collaboration ✤ www.thru-you.com ✤ Is intention essential to collaboration?

Sample 5: On Intentional collaboration ✤ www.thru-you.com ✤ Is intention essential to collaboration? ✤ What about Google Pagerank algorithm?

Sample 5: On Intentional collaboration ✤ www.thru-you.com ✤ Is intention essential to collaboration? ✤ What about Google Pagerank algorithm? ✤ Intention of action vs. intention of context

Sample 5: On Intentional collaboration ✤ www.thru-you.com ✤ Is intention essential to collaboration? ✤ What about Google Pagerank algorithm? ✤ Intention of action vs. intention of context ✤ Shared goals

Sample 6: Collaborationism

Sample 6: Collaborationism ✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”

Sample 6: Collaborationism ✤ Collaboration with “the enemy” ✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14)

Sample 6: Collaborationism ✤ Collaboration with “the enemy” ✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14) ✤ Context and conﬂict

Sample 6: Collaborationism ✤ Collaboration with “the enemy” ✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14) ✤ Context and conﬂict ✤ The nonhuman quality of networks (The Exploit - Galloway/Thacker)

Sample 6: Collaborationism ✤ Collaboration with “the enemy” ✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14) ✤ Context and conﬂict ✤ The nonhuman quality of networks (The Exploit - Galloway/Thacker) ✤ Tension between individual identities and group identities

Sample 6: Collaborationism ✤ Collaboration with “the enemy” ✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14) ✤ Context and conﬂict ✤ The nonhuman quality of networks (The Exploit - Galloway/Thacker) ✤ Tension between individual identities and group identities ✤ ‘Better a complex identity than an identity complex’ (The Digital Given - Ippolito/Lovink/Rossiter)

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End ✤ ...jump back to the world of ﬂesh meetings, slow readings and the realities of unpokeability by committing ritual suicide. Online:

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End ✤ ...jump back to the world of ﬂesh meetings, slow readings and the realities of unpokeability by committing ritual suicide. Online: ✤ "As the Seppuku restores samurai's honor as a warrior, in the same way, Seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body...” Seppukoo.com

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End ✤ ...jump back to the world of ﬂesh meetings, slow readings and the realities of unpokeability by committing ritual suicide. Online: ✤ "As the Seppuku restores samurai's honor as a warrior, in the same way, Seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body...” Seppukoo.com ✤ "This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking proﬁles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web Web 2.0 Suicide Machine

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End ✤ Ceased and Deceased

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End ✤ Ceased and Deceased ✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.”

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End ✤ Ceased and Deceased ✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.” ✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users?

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End ✤ Ceased and Deceased ✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.” ✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users? ✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can the same be said about our owned life?

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End ✤ Ceased and Deceased ✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.” ✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users? ✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can the same be said about our owned life? ✤ “A life owned by a dot.com company is not worth living...”

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End ✤ Ceased and Deceased ✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.” ✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users? ✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can the same be said about our owned life? ✤ “A life owned by a dot.com company is not worth living...” ✤ “The ritual itself is essential, as it stands as a gesture of independence from the platform, the community and the commercial interests...”

Sample 6: Death Is Not The End ✤ Ceased and Deceased ✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.” ✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users? ✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can the same be said about our owned life? ✤ “A life owned by a dot.com company is not worth living...” ✤ “The ritual itself is essential, as it stands as a gesture of independence from the platform, the community and the commercial interests...” ✤ Assisted suicide & the right to leave.

Epilogue

Knock Knock

Knock Knock ✤ The anonymous contributor

Knock Knock ✤ The anonymous contributor ✤ “Where do I sign up?”

Knock Knock ✤ The anonymous contributor ✤ “Where do I sign up?” ✤ We were not in stealth mode, we were online!

Knock Knock ✤ The anonymous contributor ✤ “Where do I sign up?” ✤ We were not in stealth mode, we were online! ✤ No social or technical mechanism for managing external contribution

Are we interested?

Are we interested? ✤ How do we introduce personal accounts?

Are we interested? ✤ How do we introduce personal accounts? ✤ Do we ignore and say “we”?

Are we interested? ✤ How do we introduce personal accounts? ✤ Do we ignore and say “we”? ✤ Do we quote ourselves?

Are we interested? ✤ How do we introduce personal accounts? ✤ Do we ignore and say “we”? ✤ Do we quote ourselves? ✤ Can we quote what’s never been written or even said?

Are we interested? ✤ How do we introduce personal accounts? ✤ Do we ignore and say “we”? ✤ Do we quote ourselves? ✤ Can we quote what’s never been written or even said? ✤ Oops... complex identity/identity complex?

Things We Did Not Cover Crowdsourcing & Mechanical Turk / Internal collaboration in for- proﬁt businesses / Piracy / Relative maintenance efforts of collaborative and free / culture projects / Interns / FLOSS zealotry and License fascism and Free Culture as an atheistic faith / Free Culture posturing, and not walking / the talk / Open Source and design / Scaling collaborations / Failure (it was not an option) / The cost of failure / Tolerance of errors / The pain of confronting ideologies / How to collaborate with people you don't agree with / So much more...

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