I think Rob makes a wonderful list of points and I can follow-up only a few
here. There is an important notion in points 5 and 6 that we are constantly
ideologically, politically and economically exploited by different platforms
and web sites and services and while we know it we do nothing
Thanks, Tero, for starting this interesting debate. I just want to jump
in on one point Ana Valdés raised:
Am 27.02.2012 16:42, schrieb Ana Valdés:
The difference is maybe the aim, the goals. The governments collect data
about us to control us and our movements, to be able to track us if our
Thank you Lasse to follow up my thread. I have lived in Sweden for almost
my whole adult life and I am very used to the ways market and corporations
work. Sweden, a very homogeneus society with a strong middleclass composed
of buyers with sure incomes, is often used as test market. Labels as
Nice point Rob.
9.) Infrastructure, complexity and use: The problem with iPhones is that they
aren't shitty enough. Again, this is linked to the logic of encapsulation, and
the ability to save us time, as per the Western infrastructure of career
enforcement and obsession with social attention
Hi Tero and all,
Thanks for the recent thought-provoking input.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 02:43:19PM +, Tero Karppi wrote:
I think Rob makes a wonderful list of points and I can follow-up only a
few here. There is an important notion in points 5 and 6 that we are
constantly
dear all
the discussion has moved forward this week, and I'm enjoying the new topics
and will just briefly try to backtrack, past unsettling privatizations of
platforms,
to thank those who responded last week to questions and pursued the discussion
on in/compatible research and self-critical
