The document discusses the future of technology and its impact on humans. It explores how technology is changing the way people interact and connect through social networks. It also examines the relationship between humans and technology, arguing that technology should be used to serve human needs and values rather than allowing technology to control human behavior. The document highlights different perspectives on maintaining balance and presence in an increasingly digital world.
CSJournalism Digital Communication specialists Noah Echols and Clay Duda presentation about transparency vs. anonymity on the Internet at Geekend 2011 in Savannah, Ga.
Novemeber 12, 2011.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, argues for complete transparency (thus accountability) on the Internet. Christopher "Moot" Poole, founder of the image message board 4Chan, argues for the anonymity and the freedom it brings.
Both perspectives affect how we interact and communicate online, and increasingly within the world around us as our culture becomes more and more tech-saturated.
In this presentation Echols and Duda examine each arguments and the respective founder's real-world actions within the historical context of communication and interpersonal studies.
How has context collapse reshaped the way you communicate? Are you aware of the shift?
CSJournalism Digital Communication specialists Noah Echols and Clay Duda presentation about transparency vs. anonymity on the Internet at Geekend 2011 in Savannah, Ga.
Novemeber 12, 2011.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, argues for complete transparency (thus accountability) on the Internet. Christopher "Moot" Poole, founder of the image message board 4Chan, argues for the anonymity and the freedom it brings.
Both perspectives affect how we interact and communicate online, and increasingly within the world around us as our culture becomes more and more tech-saturated.
In this presentation Echols and Duda examine each arguments and the respective founder's real-world actions within the historical context of communication and interpersonal studies.
How has context collapse reshaped the way you communicate? Are you aware of the shift?
From the early days of the Internet till Web 2.0 as a five-year-old Kindergartner: Is the Web dead or alive? Has the Web gotten any smarter?
Musings on report from Web 2.0 Expo 2009
Reality Is Relative - The practicalities of designing for anyone besides your...Lauren Serota
Fire engine red.
If you can picture this, you’ve been exposed, at some point in your life, to a fire engine. Now, imagine you hadn’t.
The shape of each person’s reality is determined by her individual experiences. This perspective determines what we do and don’t do, what is familiar or frightening, and how we engage with the world around us. Modern designers are expert in empathy; the danger of empathy alone is its dissolution of difference. Appropriately designed products, services, and policies come from acknowledging the unique and distinctive realities of others. Lauren will be sharing stories and frameworks on how she has reconciled these complexities of seeing in a variety of projects—from designing financial services for the rural poor in Myanmar to building strategies for corporate collaboration in Australia.
Echo chambers (and Filter Bubbles) in Media and Social NetworksPlural (think tank)
Our perception of reality - and of the choices that we have in life - has always been influenced by our surroundings: education, friends, favourite newspaper, Facebook feed etc. On the one hand this allows us to live our values among like-minded people but on the other, it can oversimplify reality and deceive us.
An echo chamber is a group situation where information, ideas and beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission and repetition, while different or competing views are censored, disallowed or otherwise under-represented.
This slideshow is summarising pros and cons of Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles in Media and Social Networks.
ALIA 2009 Keynote: Libraries as Happiness EnginesElizabeth Lawley
My keynote address from the 2009 ALIA Information Today conference in Sydney, Australia. The title comes from Jane McGonigal's 2008 GDC talk on "games as happiness engines."
Public libraries have lived with disruption of some sort for hundreds of years. These are some of the technologies that already have and are about to turn things upside down again
Predicting the social culture of our future – The Neurobiology of social networking
What is expected of tomorrow’s social networks to address the needs of a more and more complex society? Where is Facebook falling short? What can Neurobiology tell us about the wellbeing of our digital culture?
In an entertaining and inspiring talk, the speakers will use an Australian model of Neurobiology to answer these questions.
The story begins where we will explore the different personas present in our minds. We find out that different platforms such as Tinder, Facebook and Snapchat are just manifestations of these personas and our deepest longings. Then, we will enter the secret side of our brains and explore what Whisper and Lord of the Rings have in common. The speakers will then reveal the six intelligence centers of the human brain in order to classify today’s social networks and predict what is needed to build more sustainable digital platforms. In an inspiring crescendo, the speakers will make bold predictions impacting our social culture as well as our digital future.
Entrepreneurs, listen up! The speakers will predict what social platforms need to emerge to satisfy the social cognitive needs of the human brain. Using the insights of focus groups with digital natives and drawing from a wealth of research and Neurobiology, the speakers will explore the underlying motives of a digital society. This will include an outlook on Google Glass as well as an exploration into the depth of our psychological being.
Betsy Kent_ Integral Salon_Sag Harbor, NY 12-18-14Be Visible
Love it or hate it, Social Media have transformed the way we communicate. Facebook and platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, have given the average person the ability, for the first time, to publish his or her own ideas and thoughts in a public forum. No longer is news, opinion and advertising the sole domain of giant corporations companies. In this way, media has been democratized.
Most significantly, Social Media provide an environment where one can easily find his or her “tribe” – other people with shared interests, passions, and desires, whether they be political, cultural, religious, etc. The result of this can be of great benefit, or of great danger, to the global community.
Luke Robert Mason delivering a talk on using virtual persons as tools for understanding the social layer of the web 2.0.
LSEsu AMP
The Annual AMP Conference: Surviving in a Digital World
Tuesday March 6th 2012
Weavrs are virtual bodies of information, which re-purpose and remix social media streams in order to generate their own personae from the digital detritus of our online lives. Using Web APIs and a custom filter design (a mix of narrative techniques and statistical probability) these autonomous, semi-intelligent software agents have become useful collaborators for market researchers, writers and advertising agencies. By giving brand managers and researchers the ability to create quick, virtual embodiments of their target demographics, Weavrs offer a unique method via which to navigate and author the narratives that emerge on the social web. When all marketing has ever asked of user experience is to make people into users. Phactory ask if, “Surely it’s easier just to make some users?”
From the early days of the Internet till Web 2.0 as a five-year-old Kindergartner: Is the Web dead or alive? Has the Web gotten any smarter?
Musings on report from Web 2.0 Expo 2009
Reality Is Relative - The practicalities of designing for anyone besides your...Lauren Serota
Fire engine red.
If you can picture this, you’ve been exposed, at some point in your life, to a fire engine. Now, imagine you hadn’t.
The shape of each person’s reality is determined by her individual experiences. This perspective determines what we do and don’t do, what is familiar or frightening, and how we engage with the world around us. Modern designers are expert in empathy; the danger of empathy alone is its dissolution of difference. Appropriately designed products, services, and policies come from acknowledging the unique and distinctive realities of others. Lauren will be sharing stories and frameworks on how she has reconciled these complexities of seeing in a variety of projects—from designing financial services for the rural poor in Myanmar to building strategies for corporate collaboration in Australia.
Echo chambers (and Filter Bubbles) in Media and Social NetworksPlural (think tank)
Our perception of reality - and of the choices that we have in life - has always been influenced by our surroundings: education, friends, favourite newspaper, Facebook feed etc. On the one hand this allows us to live our values among like-minded people but on the other, it can oversimplify reality and deceive us.
An echo chamber is a group situation where information, ideas and beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission and repetition, while different or competing views are censored, disallowed or otherwise under-represented.
This slideshow is summarising pros and cons of Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles in Media and Social Networks.
ALIA 2009 Keynote: Libraries as Happiness EnginesElizabeth Lawley
My keynote address from the 2009 ALIA Information Today conference in Sydney, Australia. The title comes from Jane McGonigal's 2008 GDC talk on "games as happiness engines."
Public libraries have lived with disruption of some sort for hundreds of years. These are some of the technologies that already have and are about to turn things upside down again
Predicting the social culture of our future – The Neurobiology of social networking
What is expected of tomorrow’s social networks to address the needs of a more and more complex society? Where is Facebook falling short? What can Neurobiology tell us about the wellbeing of our digital culture?
In an entertaining and inspiring talk, the speakers will use an Australian model of Neurobiology to answer these questions.
The story begins where we will explore the different personas present in our minds. We find out that different platforms such as Tinder, Facebook and Snapchat are just manifestations of these personas and our deepest longings. Then, we will enter the secret side of our brains and explore what Whisper and Lord of the Rings have in common. The speakers will then reveal the six intelligence centers of the human brain in order to classify today’s social networks and predict what is needed to build more sustainable digital platforms. In an inspiring crescendo, the speakers will make bold predictions impacting our social culture as well as our digital future.
Entrepreneurs, listen up! The speakers will predict what social platforms need to emerge to satisfy the social cognitive needs of the human brain. Using the insights of focus groups with digital natives and drawing from a wealth of research and Neurobiology, the speakers will explore the underlying motives of a digital society. This will include an outlook on Google Glass as well as an exploration into the depth of our psychological being.
Betsy Kent_ Integral Salon_Sag Harbor, NY 12-18-14Be Visible
Love it or hate it, Social Media have transformed the way we communicate. Facebook and platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, have given the average person the ability, for the first time, to publish his or her own ideas and thoughts in a public forum. No longer is news, opinion and advertising the sole domain of giant corporations companies. In this way, media has been democratized.
Most significantly, Social Media provide an environment where one can easily find his or her “tribe” – other people with shared interests, passions, and desires, whether they be political, cultural, religious, etc. The result of this can be of great benefit, or of great danger, to the global community.
Luke Robert Mason delivering a talk on using virtual persons as tools for understanding the social layer of the web 2.0.
LSEsu AMP
The Annual AMP Conference: Surviving in a Digital World
Tuesday March 6th 2012
Weavrs are virtual bodies of information, which re-purpose and remix social media streams in order to generate their own personae from the digital detritus of our online lives. Using Web APIs and a custom filter design (a mix of narrative techniques and statistical probability) these autonomous, semi-intelligent software agents have become useful collaborators for market researchers, writers and advertising agencies. By giving brand managers and researchers the ability to create quick, virtual embodiments of their target demographics, Weavrs offer a unique method via which to navigate and author the narratives that emerge on the social web. When all marketing has ever asked of user experience is to make people into users. Phactory ask if, “Surely it’s easier just to make some users?”
111What Is the Elephant in the Digital RoomAny hi.docxmoggdede
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What Is the Elephant in the Digital Room?
Any history of the past three decades will give prominent, if not preeminent,
attention to the emergence of the Internet and the broader digital revolu-
tion. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, signs point to its being
a globally defining feature of human civilization going forward, until it even-
tually becomes so natural, so much a part of the social central nervous sys-
tem, as to defy recognition as something new or distinct to our being, like
speech itself.
To some extent, the revolution can be chronicled in the sheer amount
of information being generated and shared. In 1989, which seems like a
century ago, Richard Saul Wurman wrote of “information anxiety” created
by overload because there were a thousand books published every day world-
wide and nearly ten thousand periodicals then being published in the united
States.1 Google’s Eric Schmidt estimates that if one digitally recorded all
extant human cultural artifacts and information created from the dawn of
time until 2003, one would need 5 billion gigabytes of storage space. by
2010 people created that much data every two days.2 by 2012 the amount of
video being uploaded to youTube had doubled since 2010, to the equivalent
of 180,000 feature-length movies per week.3 Put another way, in less than
a week, youTube generates more content than all the films and television
programs hollywood has produced in its entire history.
Another way to grasp the digital revolution is by the amount of time
people immerse themselves in media. An extensive 2009 study found that
most Americans, regardless of their age, spend at least eight and a half hours
per day looking at a television, computer screen, or mobile phone screen,
frequently using two or three screens simultaneously.4 Another 2009 study,
by the Global Information Industry Center, determined that the average
2 digital disconnect
American consumes “information” for 11.4 hours per day, up from 7.4 hours
in 1980.5 A 2011 study of twenty thousand schoolchildren throughout Mas-
sachusetts determined that 20 percent of third graders had cell phones and
over 90 percent were going online. Forty percent of fifth graders and nearly
85 percent of middle schoolers had cell phones, generally smartphones with
Internet access.6 The Internet has long since stopped being optional.
In the united States, Europe, and much of the rest of the world, one need
not have a teenage child to understand that “social networks have become
ubiquitous, necessary, and addictive.” 7 To the students I teach, life without
mobile Internet access is unthinkable. When I describe my college years in
the early 1970s, they have trouble grasping how people managed to com-
municate, how anything could get done, how limited the options seemed to
be, how life could even be led. It would be akin to my great-grandparents
from 1860 Nova Scotia or eastern Kentucky returning to describe their ...
Sociology of the Internet and New Media.pptxSandykaFundaa
• Social Construction of Technology,
• Digital inequalities – Digital Divide and Access,
• Economy of New Media - Intellectual value;
• digital media ethics,
• new media and popular culture.
We are creating a new kind of reality, one in which physical and digital environments, media, and
interactions are woven together throughout our daily lives. In this world, the virtual and the physical
are seamlessly integrated. Cyberspace is not a destination; rather, it is a layer tightly integrated
into the world around us.
Original title: Technology Transforming Media, Transforming Us.
This is a Keynote (the app) talk I gave at Webvisions' 2013 NYC Conference in March. It's my perspective on mass communication/media from the Stone Age to today.
Today we find ourselves confronted by an overwhelming frequency of radical transformation and information overload. Extracting meaning from this paradigm and accordingly, addressing opportunities and challenges arising through ubiquitous connection and socialisation, has become the conversation of our time. The Third Place Manifesto addresses this change with a view to 'rediscovering' context within persistently disruptive and emergent social ecosystems.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
5. “It's like WIRED's fantasy dinner party having access to
the talents of Scott Harrison, Jonah Peretti, Nancy
Lublin and so many other creative thinkers. ’On! The
Future of Now' is a brilliant opportunity to understand
how technology is changing our world, explained by the
very people leading that revolution."
- David Rowan, Editor, WIRED magazine
6. WHEN TECHNOLOGY &
HUMANS UNITE
Cortana, xbox kinect voice, visual gestures that learn and start to
understand our every need. Understanding context, location. In a
mobile first, cloud first world – high value services will become far
more advanced and the data analytics and Artificial Intelligence
developing at an ever increasing rate.
8. THE HUMAN
OPERATING SYSTEM
“As more of our interactions move into the digital realm, we can
easily find ourselves hiding from the complexities of social
relationships behind the narrow field of view of technology.”
Aaron Ballick
9. BEING PRESENT?
“If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by
futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.”
Douglas Rushkoff
author and media theorist
10. THE FIGHT FOR OUR
ATTENTION
“As content has grown increasingly abundant and i
mmediately available, attention becomes the
limiting factor in the consumption of information.”
Craig Hepburn – Author of chapter 7!
11. USE TECHNOLOGY, DON’T
LET IT USE YOU
‘Liking’ someone status that talks about us needing to be open
and honest with each other, doesn’t count as us being open and
honest with each other.” Jefferson Bethke
We have shortchanged our future for immediate gratification! –
Toby Daniels
Good morning, thank you for introduction Caroline.
First thing I want to do is ask you a question: How many people on the planet are connected to each other through the Internet, social media and mobile technology in 2014?
The answer is almost 3B, roughly half of the world’s population.
However, by 2022, this number will double to 6B, with many of those people connecting for the first time in Africa, Asia and parts of Latin America.
Today I am here to talk to you about what this means today and in the future, with the aim of sharing stories, insights, anecdotes that will give you an alternative perspective on how our lives and our work is being impacted by our increasingly connected society.
Look at the technology – the sharing, the capture of a ‘moment’, the re-living afterwards, the sharing…..and this change means only one thing…..
11 petabytes of storage was used for Facebook's "Look Back" videos
Facebook users have uploaded 240 billion photos
Facebook users upload 350 million photos daily
Facebook users share an avg of 4.75 billion items daily
Our reference material today is this. Our soon to publish book ON! The Future of Now: Making Sense of Our Always On, Always Connected World.
The book has been published in partnership with Social Media Week and Nokia and is made up of a collection of essays and personal stories from leading thinkers such as author Seth Godin, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, founder and CEO of BuzzFeed Jonah Peretti and founder of Zipcar Robin Chase who was one of the pioneering innovators in the collaborative consumption movement.
The aim of the book is to provide insights into how social media and technology has impacted the contributors lives and their work and for the purposes of this talk I am going to share some of the most important themes that emerged from the book’s content.
Over the course of the next 20minsI am going to present some key themes of the book with some example stories.
A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need.
Cortana, xbox one voice, visual gestures that learn and start to understand our every need. Understanding context, location. IN a mobile first, cloud first world – services will become far more advanced and the data analytics and AI developing at an ever increasing rate.
Example – anniversary approaching, suggests some gifts based on insights and social data, provides some options. Purchases the gift, sends to wife.
One of our contributors Brooke Hammerling, who is deeply rooted into the Silicon Valley startup world, tells tells a story where she was able to share an intimate experience with a little girl in Ethiopia, while on a trip to Africa. The girl didn’t speak any English but they were able to connect when Brooke showed the girl how to play a game on her smartphone.
When some people probably would have chided her for even carrying her mobile phone with her on a trip, playing a game on a cellphone and sharing in the experience allowed her to make a real human connection.
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We are seeing these new forms of human connection happen in so many places- platforms like AirBnB and TaskRabbit where people who are brought together by technology are forming really meaningful connections. In Leah Busque’s chapter she tells the story of an unlikely friendship that formed between two mom’s on TaskRabbit.
A mother living in San Francisco was unable to be with her 20 year old son who was undergoing cancer treatments at a hospital in Massachusetts. As a librarian, she couldn’t afford to be with him for all of his treatments so she used TaskRabbit to find someone she was able to bring her son meals, sit with him and give her updates about his condition. The TaskRabbit who picked up this job was also a mother and through this ordeal, they formed a strong bond. Stories like this help us to see the potential for technology to create powerful connections between people and to hope for a better and more connected future.
First, we begin by exploring technology and our brains. Author, Dr. Aaron Balick, a integrative psychotherapist explores what he calls the Human Being Operating System (HBOS), which is the software within our own brains that allows for the creation of the kinds of technologies that surround us today. Because we are social creatures, it makes sense that much of our technology has been developed to manage our complex social relationships: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.
Ballick explains however that the narrow apertures of our technologies do not allow us to experience the fullness of human interaction, like eye contact, touch and tone. As more of our interactions move into the virtual realm, we can easily find ourselves hiding from the complexities of social relationships behind the narrow field of view of technology.
Doug Rushkoff, the author of Present Shock and Program or Be Programmed examines our shifting society, in “This is the new now.”, which is empowered and accelerated by technology.
With words like “real-time” defining everything from our television programming to the merchandise available in flash sales retailers, Rushkoff illustrates the ways that we are moving into the age of “now”.
In this new present, technology has eliminated much of the need to use our brains for information storage, in hopes that the resulting capacity of the mind could be used to solve the world’s many problems. But how do we really spend this excess brain capacity? Are we continuing in the tradition of innovators or are we impulsively responding to every new post or push notification on our mobile devices?
Rushkoff argues that we need to seek the bigger picture and spend some time disengaging from addictive nature “Now” and instead engage more in the larger question of how technology might be eroding our personal relationships are our ability to be truly present.
Today’s generation increasingly expects that important news will find them. The Sunday paper is becoming a thing of the past and the articles of influence are the ones that are most shared across Facebook and Twitter. And now that we aren’t too interested in paying newspaper editors to curate good content for us, how do we decide what’s important?
However, we do need to be careful that we are in fact using technology to add meaning to our lives. Through social media, we can reunite with long-lost neighbors and friends, but sometimes our constant connection can prevent us from connecting with those who are right beside us.
Stimulating conversations, a nuanced aspect to someones body language or the way someone might communicate using eye contact can sometimes be lost when we try to multi-task in social situations.
Working with Michael Johnson - Identifying future talent through data and social insights.
Andy Murray and his team has approached me to discuss how they can create the first truly connected athlete. Live streaming heart rate, blood pressure, stress levels, trainign regime to a mobile app for fans.
Power Your Voice, mPowering Action's flagship program, is designed to demonstrate and raise awareness around global sustainable development initiatives through sports and entertainment during the official World Cup year. The program will focus on access to energy and its link to education, healthcare, and poverty in developing nations and nations recovering from the destruction of natural disasters.