1. on the ontological necessity of the
multidisciplinary development of the web
Fabien Gandon, http://fabien.info

2. CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:
“social, political and economic implications of
cloud and web?”

3. CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:
“social, political and economic implications of
cloud and web?”

4. read-write web: global n-n interactions
new means of social interaction and social relations, global conversation
fostering self (re)organization, collaboration, movements

5. active social medias
store, process, reuse, enrich, route, manage
the information far beyond mere communication

6. subject of sociological study
sociology of the internet, internet as a sociological probe.

7. social constructs impacted
making boundaries even more porous
bridging scales e.g. local  global
strong ties support, weak ties fostering

8. identityone, which one, many ones?

10. over socialization?

11. over adaptation & filter bubble
(c.f. Eli Pariser)

12. 89 years for telephone to reach 150 million users,
38 years for television to reach same number,
14 years for the cell-phones,
8 years for the internet,
7 years for Apple iPod,
5 years for Facebook,
3 years Instagram
faster and faster

14. acceleration and alienation

15. « social » bookmark ?
massive socialization of objects & activities

16. e.g. sharing more and more
• cars (blablacar, zilokaoto, voiturelib)
• sailing (vogavecmoi.com, co-navigation.fr, equipier.fr)
• taxi (provoiturage.fr)
• packages (expediezentrevous.com)
• parking (monsieurparking.com)
• housing (AirBnB, Couchsurfing)
• storage (costockage.fr)
• funding (kisskissbankbank, kickstarter)
• offices (coworking)
• food (colunching.com, cookening.com)
• sport (Unlish.com, Cleec.com, kikourou.net)
• washing machine (lamachineduvoisin.fr)
• clothes (pretachanger.fr, vestiairecollective.com)
• worms (réseau lombricompos)
…

17. CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:
“social, political and economic implications of
cloud and web?”

18. campaigns, donations, recruiting…

19. e-government
digital interactions between a government and citizens
managing enlarged democratic bandwidth
direct lines to politicians ?

20. 1000 millions
China: 1 600 millions
India: 1 200 millions
acebook

21. DATA.GOV

22. read, search and compare constitutionswww.constituteproject.org

23. web activism

24. defend the web
online free speech, neutrality, privacy
a never ending fight, always be vigilant.

25. web index: the state of the web
country-level data on web usage, readiness, and human impact

26. CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:
“social, political and economic implications of
cloud and web?”

27. high impact on
knowledge
intensive work
e.g. reuter & stock market

28. new giants
1997
now

29. new markets e.g. domain names

30. new markets e.g. world wide word market

31. economy of attention
selling available brain time & communication puzzle
© Eyetools & Enquiro

32. impacted traditional business
from bookstores to amazon.co.uk
customer relation, communication, business integration, etc.

33. gobal access
even for SMEs

34. ¥€$ you pay as you ‘enter’
privacy as a money

35. data is the new oil
where does our data flow?
oil barrels
data bases

36. building blocs for innovation
“prosumers” document/evaluate/suggest/design/… products

37. CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:
“social, political and economic implications of
cloud and web?”
yes and...

38. psychological: profiling
our inner self

39. transportation

40. ethical: keep watching?

42. educational: e-learning, teaching the web

44. health
United States Flu Activity - Influenza estimate
● Google Flu Trends ● U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

45. pangaea-wide web
geo-graphic, -politic, -cultural, etc.

46. meteorology

47. legalto read or not to read…
terms and conditions of web applications
32 241 words18 301 words15 352 words 36 275 words19 972 words11 195 words
http://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/length-of-website-terms-and-conditions/
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48. massive interaction design
ergonomics in hybrid web communities

49. moral social machines
humans in the loop… but not any loop

50. linguistics‫شیرین‬‫نشاط‬
Shirin Neshat

51. digital

52. http://drunks-and-lampposts.com/2012/06/13/graphing-the-history-of-philosophy/
http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/07/03/mapping-how-programming-languages-influenced-each-other-according-to-wikipedia/
http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/07/04/mapping-related-musical-genres-on-wikipediadbpedia-with-gephi/
a global observatory

53. scientific practices: data,
collaboration, publication

54. REALLY?! HOW EXACTLY?
the web has more than 2.1 billion direct users
and impacts everyone indirectly

56. NASA ©
digital divide, who can afford an internet connection?

57. cultural creation, diffusion

58. language and geographical coverage
©Denny Vrandečić

59. divide propagates in all dimensions too
social, democratic, economic, health, educational, etc.

61. CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:
“social, political and economic implications of
cloud and web?”
yes and...
psychological, educational, biological,
philosophical, linguistic, mathematical,
ecological, cultural, legal, medical, historical,
interactional, geographical, sexual, artistic,
mediatic, dietetic, e-tc.

63. hypertext ?

64. the web never was an hypertext
closer to resource-oriented hyper program

65. identify what
exists on the
web
http://my-site.fr
identify,
on the web,
what exists
http://animals.org/this-zebra

66. references to
the web

67. « Willie bus ©»
new accesses,
new channels.
« Monkey Light Pro ©»

68. any thing

69. world-wide way
as the web is spreading in the world,
the world is spreading in the web.

70. world-wild web
the natural complexity of our world
contaminates the web

71. www
mmm
world wide web
massively multidisciplinary method

72. by its very nature the web calls for
a multidisciplinary development.
Fabien Gandon, http://fabien.info