As I read the paper, I formed the conclusion that the context was constrained to commerce.
The definition of business model in section 2.2 is couched in terms of 'profitable and sustainable revenue streams' and 'The widespread understanding is that "social networking sites can generate revenues through advertising, subscription, and transaction models" ' You do refer to government, however it is not clear if you are including governments as primary users of social media or as a provider of infrastructure, acquirers of information from social media sites and developers of laws and regulations within which social media may operate. I suggest it would be very useful if you included business models for government as well as commerce. Including government as both a participant and regulator of the social media eco-system is of course problematic, but that's the real world. And I don't see why A Social Network Users' Bill of Rights should not apply equally to government as well as commerce, although government may claim that in certain cases you should have one and only one identity that you cannot revoke. Now there's a can of nematodes. If you do decide to broaden the scope to include government, then maybe the word "consumer" is not the best, although governments do like to think of themselves as providers of services which get consumed by the community. On 12/02/2014 2:25 PM, Roger Clarke wrote: > As always, constructively negative feedback gratefully received! > > > The Prospects for Consumer-Oriented Social Media > http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/COSM-1402.html > > The term 'social media' refers to a cluster of applications and > online services that support human interaction and content > broadcasting and sharing. Current services are isolated islands or > 'walled gardens', and are based on a business model that is highly > exploitative of individuals and their data. An alternative, > consumer-oriented approach is feasible, involving open architecture, > inter-operability and portability features, fair terms and > privacy-sensitivity. Key impediments to the emergence of such > services are identified, and means of overcoming the impediments are > outlined. > > -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Sydney Australia email: [email protected] web: www.drbrd.com web: www.problemsfirst.com Blog: www.problemsfirst.com/blog _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
