on the ontological necessity of the
multidisciplinary development of the web
Fabien Gandon, http://fabien.info
CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:
“social, political and economic implications of
cloud and web?”
CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:
“social, political and economic implications of
cloud and web?”
read-write web: global n-n interactions
new means of social interaction and social relations, global conversation
fostering self (re)organization, collaboration, movements
active social medias
store, process, reuse, enrich, route, manage
the information far beyond mere communication
subject of sociological study
sociology of the internet, internet as a sociological probe.
social constructs impacted
making boundaries even more porous
bridging scales e.g. local  global
strong ties support, weak ties fostering
identityone, which one, many ones?
over socialization?
over adaptation & filter bubble
(c.f. Eli Pariser)
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
acceleration and alienation
« social » bookmark ?
massive socialization of objects & activities
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)
…
CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:
“social, political and economic implications of
cloud and web?”
campaigns, donations, recruiting…
e-government
digital interactions between a government and citizens
managing enlarged democratic bandwidth
direct lines to politicians ?
1000 millions
China: 1 600 millions
India: 1 200 millions
acebook
DATA.GOV
read, search and compare constitutionswww.constituteproject.org
web activism
defend the web
online free speech, neutrality, privacy
a never ending fight, always be vigilant.
web index: the state of the web
country-level data on web usage, readiness, and human impact
CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:
“social, political and economic implications of
cloud and web?”
high impact on
knowledge
intensive work
e.g. reuter & stock market
new giants
1997
now
new markets e.g. domain names
new markets e.g. world wide word market
economy of attention
selling available brain time & communication puzzle
© Eyetools & Enquiro
impacted traditional business
from bookstores to amazon.co.uk
customer relation, communication, business integration, etc.
gobal access
even for SMEs
¥€$ you pay as you ‘enter’
privacy as a money
data is the new oil
where does our data flow?
oil barrels
data bases
building blocs for innovation
“prosumers” document/evaluate/suggest/design/… products
CLOSER/WEBIST PANEL QUESTION:
“social, political and economic implications of
cloud and web?”
yes and...
psychological: profiling
our inner self
transportation
ethical: keep watching?
educational: e-learning, teaching the web
health
United States Flu Activity - Influenza estimate
● Google Flu Trends ● U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
pangaea-wide web
geo-graphic, -politic, -cultural, etc.
meteorology
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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massive interaction design
ergonomics in hybrid web communities
moral social machines
humans in the loop… but not any loop
linguistics‫شیرین‬‫نشاط‬
Shirin Neshat
digital
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
scientific practices: data,
collaboration, publication
REALLY?! HOW EXACTLY?
the web has more than 2.1 billion direct users
and impacts everyone indirectly
NASA ©
digital divide, who can afford an internet connection?
cultural creation, diffusion
language and geographical coverage
©Denny Vrandečić
divide propagates in all dimensions too
social, democratic, economic, health, educational, etc.
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.
hypertext ?
the web never was an hypertext
closer to resource-oriented hyper program
identify what
exists on the
web
http://my-site.fr
identify,
on the web,
what exists
http://animals.org/this-zebra
references to
the web
« Willie bus ©»
new accesses,
new channels.
« Monkey Light Pro ©»
any thing
world-wide way
as the web is spreading in the world,
the world is spreading in the web.
world-wild web
the natural complexity of our world
contaminates the web
www
mmm
world wide web
massively multidisciplinary method
by its very nature the web calls for
a multidisciplinary development.
Fabien Gandon, http://fabien.info

on the ontological necessity of the multidisciplinary development of the web