samedi 6 décembre 2008

Paysages numeriques

I read in the Human Sciences Dictionnairy, this definition of Landscape :

So that one can advisedly speak about “landscape”, it is necessary, by order of decreasing discrimination, that exist in the society concerned: 1/  treaties of landscape, like the introduction to the painting of landscape of Zong Bing, written towards 440, first example of the  kind; 2/ words meaning “landscape”; 3/  pictorial representations of landscapes; 4/ literary evocations of landscapes (oral or written); 5/ pleasure gardens

Do we have digital landscapes ?

lundi 24 novembre 2008

About Soren Mork Petersen's Loser Generated Content

“Web 2.0 emerged primarily after thedotcom crisis” Søren Mørk Petersen, Loser Generated Content : From Participation to Exploitation

 

Many things were said about Web 2.0, but it is the first time that I see put a such direct link between the  emergence of the Web 2.0 and the crisis which crossed  by the dotcoms.

Søren Mørk Petersen shows that Web 2.0 is also a change of an economic model which had carried some companies - dotcoms - at incredible tops. However much had been unable to sell goods on line - that's one of the origins or the crisis.

The change consisted to organize and sell what Internet makes do best: the hype and the buzz. The  ingenuity - some will say the juggling - consisted has to let the users produce the contents and to use these contents to produce richness.

 

Søren Mørk Petersen gives several examples of them: Google, AOL, contents generated by the users, blogists and sites of social networks. I would take again only the first two examples

Google:  the repurchase by Google of the files of DejaNews enables the compagny to valorise years of conversations on Usenet. The interface proposed by Google does not make it possible any more to make the difference between Google groups and Usenet. Created in 1979 by four students, Usenet was for a long time the heart of the life on line. It is a space which is not without making think of the blogosphère today. The hierarchy is decentralized there: each one can manage its own Usenet waiter, and each one can write what he wants.

 

AOL: in 1999, some Net surfers assigned AOL in justice. They asked to the Internet Provider a remuneration for every hour that they had passed to animate the AOL forums, bringing contents, creating and supporting conversations, building the feeling of a community. The investigation was closed in 2001, without an answer of the american state not being brought.

This question is still relevant :who owns the contents produced on Facebook, Flickr, in a  MMORPG ? Who owns the machiminas? They belong to those which produce, edit, read them ? Or they belong to the editors of the video games or the sites of social networks  ?

 

What Søren Mørk Petersen says about the  in connection with the repurchase by Google of the DejaNews files 

This strategy can be charaterized as a reterritorialisation of free labour into a capitalistic structure of profit making

can today easily be extended to the Internet, from the blogosphere to the social networking sites through folksonomies. The entire system is based on the capture of content produced by users. Add new content on the Internet, a comment on a blog, an image on Flickr, fill a profile on Lindedkin create a link with the tip of the capitalist system. And this deepens as the relationship that we forged with other human beings are built.

 

In the clouds, the raw material of capitalism, is our social relations.

mardi 30 septembre 2008

How twitter may help to think ?

Loïc Lemeur posted an interesting point of view about twitter. It the great tradition of the lists of the blogosphere, he gives the 10 reasons why he is following 10K people on twitter. Loïc Lemeur, as Robert Scobble or Jason Calacanis is an "Über User" of the Internet. As it, he is stressed by the forces of the Internet, and that make easier to highlight mechanisms which exist at everyone. Whereas one expected that he is submerged by his 10K, he gives a very positive view of his situation

Point 3 seems very important to me

3- I love watching the updates of 10 000 people that have related to me in anyway, when I have "free" time, it's just watching, being curious about them and I love to discover new people this way.Loïc Lemeur

Effectively, look at the torrent of the twitts is fascinating. Everybody can realize it with Twitter Elections or Twittervision. It is not limited to twitter : we have the same fascination with the tools of the Digg Labs. The pleasure felt is that to see the things changing all having or not the possibility of intervening. We feel the same pleasure when we contemplate le wind in a corn field or the the undertow of the waves. The pleasure come from that what we look at make it possible to figure our inner and deep movements, more of less concious, more or less psychics : torrents of blood which precipitate in the cardiac pump, intestinal transit time, fast activations and desactivation of the neuronal chains, modifications of the concious and unconcious investments for exemple

There is another source a pleasure. It is due to the imaginary position of impassioned. The model is that of passion in love

4- I would like to learn more about them, in these 10 000 people I bet there are many I would love to have dinner with because we have many interests in common and I probably don't know about them Loïc Lemeur (my emphasis)

To be able to have dinner with so many people, one undoubtedly needs an appetite of ogre

This passion for each follow, the desire to learn more aboute them, individually, and to avec with each of them a priviligiate relation brings to another imaginary position. We all lived such a passion. It is the passion wich a mother feels for her child, and reciprocally, the passion of each child for his mother, exploring his face to decipher her emotions. For each children, a mother is first perceived as beeing able to see deeply inside him. What he thinks, he believes, is directly perceived by his mother *. So, her statute of good enough mother is never definitively acquired : such a mighty person could use its powers against him, explore his psyché, destroy its contents or plunder what it has of more invaluable. Why wouldn't she have not such desires then that it can recognize them at his place ? Numeric worlds, because they give us the feeling to conect directly the one with the others, expose us to such fantaisies

from where the precautions :

"it is not spam... It is not intrusive. Loïc Lemeur

We are all like Loïc Lemeur. Sometimes we are as children who look at the hurly-burly or the numeric worlds : up and dowload rates on a P2P software, loading of the mail, succession of the twitts. Plunged in the spectacle of the infinite changes ** that numerical worlds offer us, we find visualizations that help us to represent the changes we feel in us; sometimes we are like mothers, plunging our glance in our small world of children, with more or less of benevolence.

* The discovery that he can lie and without the parents realize anything is always an big event a favorable evolution in the development of the child.

** Infinite transformability is one of the caracteristic of what french psychoanalyst René Roussillon call "malleable medium "