This document discusses the researcher's work on technology regulation and democracy. It touches on topics such as privacy, surveillance, activism, civil disobedience, and the relationship between technology and society. The researcher argues that technology regulation is inherently linked to democracy, and if technology is not free then neither are people. They discuss debates around how to properly advocate for issues and whether certain actions can be considered true activism or "slacktivism." The work seems focused on understanding how technology impacts culture, power structures, and social change.

1. What I talk about when
I talk about my research
Mathias Klang
@klangable

2. What I study

3. Context is everything

4. SimCity's homeless people are
represented as yellow, two-
dimensional, ungendered figures with
bags in tow.
Excerpt from Matteo Bittanti's How to Get Rid of Homelessness

5. Democracy Undone

6. Law
Contextual &
programmed social
rules
Architecture
Control in
analogue world
Control in
digital world

7. The problem with
teleportation

8. The regulation of technology IS the
regulation of democracy. If our
technology isn’t free (as in
freedom) then neither are we
#ShareMyThesis

9. Blogger 1999Google 1999
Mathias Klang
@klangable
CC BY

12. The illusion of companionship without the
demands of friendship Sherry Turkle

14. Where I am going now…

15. Are books dead and can authors & culture survive?

17. Sadly outdated
(and seriously!! what is wrong with publishers???)

18. Privacy

19. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832

21. Michel Foucault 1926 – 1984

22. Sousveillance:
A gaze from below

23. “It is when you need to know”

24. Autoveillance:
a gaze from within

25. Performance lifestyle

26. Funeral Selfies

28. Technoveillance – our devices are
betraying us.

29. They are not
our devices!

30. Regulation by proxy

31. Civil Disobedience

32. Rawles: Theory of Justice (1971)
I shall assume, as requiring no
argument, that there is, at least in
a society such as ours, a moral
obligation to obey the law,
although it may, of course, be
overridden in certain cases by
other more stringent obligations.

33. H. A. Bedau: Civil Disobedience in Focus
“committed openly…non-violently…and
conscientiously…within the framework of
the rule of law…with the intention of
frustrating or protesting some law, policy
or decision…of the government.”

34. Cult of the Dead cow 1996
We are HACKERS and we are HACKTIVISTS. Our mandate is to keep the
Internet free, healthy, and adventurous. We will not be bullied.
HACKTIVISTS are not the ones who decided to shackle free speech and
the open exchange of ideas.

35. The Electrohippies vs cDc debate (2000)

36. Postman, Huxley, Social Media & LolCats

37. Activism or slacktivism?

38. Peter Singer: Civil disobedience
...if the aim of disobedience is to present a case to the public, then only
such disobedience as is necessary to present this case is justified...if
disobedience for publicity purposes is to be compatible with fair
compromise, it must be non-violent.

39. Is this the face of disobedience?

40. Are we there yet?

41. Risk Society for information abuse

42. Which “class” will mitigate these risks?

43. “Experts” inhabit exclusive environments

44. a society examines
that itself changes
itself in the process

45. Whoever controls the media, the images,
controls the culture.

46. Thank you.

47. Mathias Klang
@klangable
www.klangable.com
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