Hi Rob, Thanks for your references in response to the article I posted th eother day. Your last sentence said "Regarding social media workerism, if people want to be paid for using Facebook there's already a market in that but it's probably not one they'd like to participate in" and you pointed us to 'bot-bubble click farms' by Doug Bock Clark, which is very interesting - http://bit.ly/1JUrJHA
Not sure if you remember -- anyhoooo... I write an article/interview in 2013 on furtherfield called 'Commodify Us: Our Data Our Terms' http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/commodify-us-our-data-our-terms - now, I interviewed Walter Langelaar about the project Commodify.Us. "A significant value offered by the Commodify.Us platform is the power to manage our own data. The simple act of downloading our own data from Facebook, and then uploading it to Commodify.Us supports us to rethink what all this information is. What once was just abstract data suddenly becomes material that we can manipulate. Alongside this realization arrives the understanding that this material was made by our interactions with all these platforms, and that other people are spying on us and making money out of it all. Once this data material is uploaded onto the Commodify.Us platform, it asks if we want this stuff to be a product under our own terms, or if we wish to make art out of it using their tools. This is a cultural shift that demonstrates how contemporary Hacktivists are developing software that promises to offer realistic service infrastrucutures. When I interviewed Charlie Gere in 2012[8] he said that these artists "are not part of the restricted economy of exchange, profit, and return that is at the heart of capitalism, and to which everything else ends up being subordinated and subsumed. Thus they find an enclave away from total subsumption not outside of the market, but at its technical core." For me, this kind of work is of central importance to the contemporary era, and it only occurs where artists cross over into territories where their knowledge of networks directly contributes to the building of alternative structures of social independence." Now I'm wondering if any one knows whether the project carried on, or developed into something else? chat soon. marc On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Rob Myers <r...@robmyers.org> wrote: > On 2015-04-29 06:11, marc garrett wrote: > >> Facebook isn’t a charity. The poor will pay by surrendering their >> data >> > > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/does-internetorg-deprive-latin-americans-real-internet > > "RedPaTodos, a coalition of Internet users in Colombia, adds that > Internet.org will never be free as advertised because the cost will be paid > by users with their personal data (amounting to more than 8 million > Colombians, in the case of local partner Tigo.) " > > internet.org demonstrates the corporate-friendly failings of focussing on > internet access in itself without a guiding idea of freedom (or justice if > we must). > > It's possible to imagine a future in which we control and gain passive > income from the data that Facebook currently profits from aggregating and > using against us: > > https://idcubed.org/bitcoin-burning-man-beyond/ > > But such fantasies serve mostly to promote locked-down computing systems > and fuel the instrumentalized narcissism that is behind both the selfie and > social media workerism (the idea that we should be paid for Being Ourselves > on Facebook): > > http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/gbe03620usen/GBE03620USEN.PDF > > "Most IoT business models also hinge on the use of analytics to sell user > data or targeted advertising. These expectations are also unrealistic. Both > advertising and marketing data are affected by the unique quality of > markets in information: the marginal cost of additional capacity > (advertising) or incremental supply (user data) is zero. So wherever there > is competition, market-clearing prices trend toward zero, with the real > revenue opportunity going to aggregators and integrators." > > Regarding social media workerism, if people want to be paid for using > Facebook there's already a market in that but it's probably not one they'd > like to participate in: > > > http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121551/bot-bubble-click-farms-have-inflated-social-media-currency > > (via bruces on ello) > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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