What an extraordinary chorus of voices we have here on the NetBehaviours List! As a composer, I am interested in how all the parts harmonize together polyphonically, rub up against each other contrapuntally, provide a sense of direction and perspective as the lines & melodies of our utterances collectively play out.
So here is a first pass at some categorical distinctions to provide us with a ³social taxonomy² of net behaviourism: (I welcome all revisions & additions!) Enjoy, Randall The Alarmists @BishopZ >>>>> The Internet of Things will inevitably consolidate corporate power over our personal liberty. @Alan >>>> The digital, I think, is unbearably fragile; not only is privacy lost, but we are not prepared, and can't prepare, for the attacks and corrosion to come. @Patrick >>>> I see a more profound short-term sense of (pessimism) in the youth in my regions of interaction. @Dave >>>> The new breed of technologies might make it more obvious that government is entirely obsolete. @Rob >>>>>>> The Cultural Smog Of The Internet a paralysing weight rather than an inspiring force. @Mez >>>>> Whatever the magnitude/form, online dialogues appear to be flooded with antagonistic commentary. The Cynics @Alan >>>>> Do you honestly believe, with all the hacking/corrosion/cyberwarfare going on, that regulations will make the slightest bit of difference? @Edward >>>> But don't hope for too much. They guys with the money hold all the good cards. @Isabel >>>>> It's worth being an artist for all sorts of reasons, but not particularly for social change. @Simon >>>> jumping on the digital bandwagon seems pointless. @Karl >>>> there is a word for actor and audience in the social media realm: prosumer! @Ruth >>>>> From the perspective of the platform providers, the purpose of the users actions and interactions is to squirt lucrative data. @James >>>> the lines (of communication) are already open, we're just sending information back and forth along them The Realists @Ruth >>>> Netartizen #tip3 Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr are not public @Johannes >>>>>>>>> "(I) find the idea of artizen nation objectionable. @Paul >>>> We all think we're creating important and relevant work but if the future doesn't come up with a way to extract and preserve it, then it probably didn't mean that much to them. @Marc >>>> What future artists need to know is that they can make their own contexts beyond the given structures, shoved down their metaphorical gullets @Edward >>>> I'm not sure I feel like a citizen of the net. @Isabel >>>> there may be some degree of privilege involved in the possibility of being/contributing as a Netartizen/Netartisan. The Apocalyptic @Kath >>>> if there is some pulse in the future which wipes all the technology we'll be left with a gap from our digital/online years. let's hope the libraries survive. @Patrick >>>>> I feel that social media and the rise of infopower like the Arab Spring and ISIS, big data, stacks and Baynesian algorithms typify our time. @Alan >>>> Who will be physical when the land is scorched? And perhaps more to the point, what are we, as NetArtizens doing/writing/ about it? The Hopeful @David >>>> Perhaps acting out of ignorance (is) an opportunity to create something that is truly new. @Rob >>>> Claiming privatised (network) space for the public that is (supposedly economically) exploited to give it its value, and doing so under the banner of art, is a political strategy (for those of us who like political strategies) that has the potential to wrong-foot affective capital's enclosures. @Rob >>> Let's make a net we want to be citizens of, for a while. @Helen >>>> I have long hunted for a good word for this - for audiences that are participating in a really creative way in a work - & i don't just mean the "interactivity" of pressing a button or something like that. i mean co-authoring in a way that they can insert their own creativity & alter/influence the work. @Randall >>> The modern day database, content management system, and social media offer new ways to fully integrate the artistic process into a dynamically-shared, distributed network. @Ruth >>>> NetArtizen #tip1: initiate and participate in equal measure. The Poets @Bill >>>> would be nice to have MANIC responses @Ruth >>>> NetArtizen #tip2 There is no one We @Mez >>>>> N.Et.A[l]rtizen #[s]tip[ewe.lation]3: S[m]o[dalities+fun]c[t]i[ons_]al[ways]media[ate]platform[at]s. @Alan >>>>> cultural heritage = 0000000067141066147020145071157060440063556066145063040 @Dark >>>> 404 FILE NOT FOUND I am still alive The Dreamers @Gil >>>>> I find out more about the world we live in from netbehaviour than from anywhere else. @Randall >>> Let¹s conceptualize an approach to networked systems that can be expressed with any social media platform we may invent or even dream of. @BishopZ >>>> I had a dream one time of teams of artists paratrooping into troubled areas - delivering theatrical re-interpretations of local mythology - explaining in local vernacular the torment that locals faced.
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