Tim Klapdor discusses the history and impact of social media. He notes that while the web was originally meant to be open and free, social media platforms have led to the "enclosure" of the digital world through their acquisition of user data and control of information flows. This digital enclosure has created new vectoralist and hacker classes that extract value from users. Major social media companies own little assets but have achieved huge valuations by accumulating and monetizing user data and social graphs without users fully understanding how their digital identities and relationships are being defined and exploited.

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A S T O R Y O F S O C I A L M E D I A

2. Who has a
Facebook account?

3. Who’s tagged someone
else in a photo or post?

4. Who’s changed their
relationship status?

5. https://flic.kr/p/bX1M8b

6. Y E A R S O L D
twenty+five
the web is

8. I believe
in the Web.

9. Social Media is
not the Web.

12. WTF is Social Media?

16. Enclosure

18. Commons to Private

20. https://flic.kr/p/8S9h5V

21. We put our
stuff into
other peoples
containers.
https://flic.kr/p/aBiyQE

22. Digital Enclosure:
Acquisition
of data via
Startups
https://flic.kr/p/oNVWTq

23. Digital Enclosure:
Controling
the flow
https://flic.kr/p/pUhUUL

24. Digital Enclosure:
Binary Choice
https://flic.kr/p/pUhUUL

25. Digital Enclosure:
Licencing
Terms
https://flic.kr/p/72V3Hg

26. Who owns your data?
And how do they
define your identity?

27. Exploitation

28. The
Social Graph
Social Network Diagram by DarwinPeacock, Maklaan

30. Facebook = $250 billion
Uber = $50 billion
AirBnB = $25 billion
http://for.tn/1MjxHEa, http://on.wsj.com/1QPYfPb, http://cnnmon.ie/1MjxMaU

31. Metcalfe's Law“the value of a network is proportional to the square of
the number of connected users of the system.”

32. sharing
or giving?

33. McKenzie Wark

34. Hacker
Class
Vectoralist
Class

35. Means of
Transmission
Means of
Production

36. Information to Commodity

37. Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns
no vehicles.
Facebook, the world’s most popular media
owner, creates no content.
And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation
provider, owns no real estate.
–Tom Goodwin

38. the vector
The Vectoralist Model

39. driver passenger

40. room traveller

41. money & power

42. Enslavement

43. If X andYthen Z

46. Who’s changed their
relationship status?

47. Facebook can access every
TAG, TIME, DATE, CAPTION,
COMMENT, LIKE, PHOTO,
VIDEO, LOCATION +
GENDER, RELATIONSHIP,
ASSOCIATION + PRIVATE MESSAGE
& INTIMATE CONVERSATION

49. Known Unkown
http://bit.ly/1DIDEda

58. Thanks!
@timklapdor
timklapdor.wordpress.com