@BishopZ, your groupings are masterful, thank you! And @Isabel too for the pictorialization.
The idea of a catalogue of social taxonomy of net behavior was not intended to categorize the participants, rather, it was an effort to identify (seriously & playfully) the various types of behaviors we (and everyone else) exhibit in our networked practices, online social engagement, and the socio-political perspectives we formulate from our net experiences. Our conversation over the first week was a richly layered collection of net behaviorisms: an opportunity for reflecting on these tendencies to better talk about them, analyze them, critique them, and understand them. None of us exhibit only one type of net behavior, whether it be cynicism, or poeticism, anger, or play: in our everyday lives we are all multi-textured individuals. In the world of database technology, the word category is synonymous with taxonomy, which is simply a tool for grouping concepts hierarchically. The hierarchical approach to sorting out concepts & ideas is fundamental to how we learn, analyze, and extract meaning & symbolic value. So categorization is a powerful means for conceptual reasoning: in this case I excavated our own utterances to assemble a list of tendencies in order to initiate a larger, constructive dialogue concerning the main topic of this discussion: netbehavior. So please excuse if any you thought you were being pigeon holed or unduly categorized, rather, it was my intent to use our discussion as a laboratory for critique, a sampling of comments from highly accomplished individuals of the networked practice to serve as a case study for our discussion concerning the impact of the net on the way we work, play, think and engage with one another. I look forward to the continuing conversation and of course your artistic renderings. Randall On 3/7/15, 1:43 PM, "BishopZ" <xchic...@gmail.com> wrote: >so here is a first pass > >as the lines & melodies of our utterances > >Bz > > > >The Tigers > >The Cultural Smog Of The Internet The Internet of Things - the >magnitude/form, flooded with a profound short-term breed of >technologies. In the youth- in my regions of interaction- we are not >prepared. There is a paralyzing weight over our personal liberty. >Privacy lost to attacks and corrosion. Antagonistic commentary acting >as an inspiring force. Corporate power is entirely obsolete. >Government will inevitably consolidate. The new aesthetic might make >it more obvious, but pessimism is unbearably fragile, whatever online >dialogues might appear to be. > > >The Snakes > >Do you honestly believe we're just sending information back and forth? >The guys with the money, with all the hacking/corrosion/cyberwarfare, >are not particularly for social change. Jumping on the perspective of >the platform providers, in the social media realm, the digital >bandwagon holds all the good cards. Don't hope for too much. It's >worth being a prosumer for all sorts of reasons. The purpose of >regulations will make the lines (of communication), of user's actions >and interactions, for actor and audience, already open, and along them >the slightest bit of lucrative data. The difference seems pointless. > > >The Dragons > >(I) find the idea. The future can make their own contexts beyond some >degree of privilege. Future artists are not public. Creating important >and relevant work, being/contributing the possibility of a nation >objectionable, feeling like a citizen, knowing the given structures, >we shove down their metaphorical gullets and come up to extract and >preserve what we all think we need to do, on the net, on Social media >platforms, as a Netartizen/Netartisan. > > >The Phoenixes > >If there is some rise of infopower, who will be physical when big data >stacks wipes all the technology, when the land is scorched, when >social media typifies our time? And perhaps more to the point, let's >hope the gap from our Arab Spring will be left with a feeling that in >the pulse of the future digital/online years that libraries survive. >What are we ISIS, we Baynesian algorithms, we NetArtizens >doing/writing/about? What are we, as "it"? > > >The Spiders > >I have long hunted the good word. We want dynamically-shared, >distributed co-authoring in a way that (is) an opportunity to create >something that is for audiences that are participating - a political >strategy for those of us who like political strategies - a privatized >(network) space for the public. Acting out of ignorance, the modern >day database alters/influences the work. We can be citizens of >capital's enclosures for a while, exploited to give it its value, >pressing a button, inserting our own creativity into content >management system and social media. I don't just mean "interactivity" >under the banner of art. Let's make a truly new net. One that has the >potential to- in a really creative way, offer new ways to fully >integrate the artistic process into a network, or something like that, >a net where we can initiate and participate in equal measure. > > >The Cranes > >@Bill >>>> would be nice to have #tip2 There is no one We @Mez >>>>> >N.Et.A[l]rtizen MANIC responses @Ruth >>>> NetArtizen >#[s]tip[ewe.lation] ---- al[ways]media[ate]platform[at]s. @Alan >>>>> >cultural heritage ---- 3: S[m]o[dalities+fun]c[t]i[ons_] = >0000000067141066147020145071157060440063556066145063040 @Dark >>>> 404 >FILE NOT FOUND I am still alive > > >The Star Fishes > >I had a dream one time about the world we live in- of teams of >artists- from netbehaviour- from anywhere else. Let¹s conceptualize an >approach to delivering theatrical social media. We may invent or even >dream of local mythologies of networked systems in troubled areas. We >find out more can be expressed in local vernacular. We find a platform >for paratrooping re-interpretations of torment explained by the >local's face. >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
