Thanks Marc :) M
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of marc garrett Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:06 AM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] FW: Blogpost: Immiserating the Poor: We Have An App For That (Social Media vs. the iPhone in Egypt and a Kenyan slum) Hi Michael, Thank you sharing this excellent article with us on Netbehaviour, "The fundamental problem with all of this comes in the failure to distinguish between the residents of Kibera as consumers using their cell phones and this "shiny app" to pursue their individual consumer dreams, and the residents of Kibera as citizens who could and should be insisting on the availability of water as a right of residence or alternatively developing some community based collaborative approach to responding to the water crisis." An assumption which many are guilty of (many of us in various degrees), is that technology as in 'gadget' technology offers solutions and behaviour for collaborative evolution, yet basic technologies are (fundamentally) more significant and perhaps are more appropriate and more life changing. The narcissism and complicit experience of denial that comes about through individualism, and gadget orientated consumer based mannerisms; loses its value and power when the plug is pulled out of the socket, when the battery runs down, when the food is not on the table, when basic 'essential', social amenities are stripped away, when our drink (water) is not available or is privatized and becomes a privilege. This also links to what Andreas was touching upon on the list last week. Wishing you well. marc _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
