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Smart Mobs

zkrider — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:37:49 CDT

This is what I've learned in this class. Smart Mobs have a chance of becoming the new system of government in the near or distant future, depending on how much our technology evolves. We have already seen people who have made robots and other things to do their jobs and GPS is probably everywhere. I fear for those that do not have, can afford or know how to use computers and networks.

There is also a chance of being apart of a giant Panopticon, and unless there are people out there that want to make bold statements, then crime may become nonexsistant. There is also the possibility of humans losing their ability to be humane. What will be the chance that robots be treated as humans and humans as robots? It is pretty bad, because you never know what to expect from the future, and the only thing you can do is become a part of the system.

-Prescott
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Here is a collection of important quotes, and concepts from the book (will be added to):

"The 'Killer Apps' of tomorrow's mobile infocom industry won't be hardware devices or software programs but social practices" (as in facebook and myspace)

Mobile internet when it really arrives, will not be just a way to do old things while moving. It will be a way to do things that couldn't be done before.

new social forms of the early twenty-first century will greatly enhance the power of social networks.

Mobile phones triggered a power shift in japan freed youth from "the tyrany of the landslide shared by inquisitive family members, creating a space for private communication and an agency that alters possibilities for social action.

In may 2000, the US govt ended GPS scrabling, and a civilian market for GPS started to blossom. The US has ordered all telephones sold in the US to become location-aware by 2005, for the purpose of improving emergency services.

RFID tags will revolutionize transport, purchasing, and tracking of products, once the “penny tag” price is realized. The current tags are getting closer by the day, due to using silicon chip technology instead of metal coils as in the past.
Link > http://www.schmidtwriting.com/articles/clients/tr/beyond.pdf

RFID tags are being looked into for use in currency, “American civil libertarians assert that sentient currency would violate the US constitutional prohibition against unlawful search and seizure” due to the fact they would be able to say who has had it, what it has purchased, and where it has been, or is.

“People for whom pervasive computing is an abstraction will understand very clearly that the traditional and material have changed when the air they breathe might be watching them.” This would be accomplished by “smart dust”, chips so small they are dust like.

Chopstick method of computing will soon be more popular as you will be able to “pick up” an group of data (a picture) and “drop it” onto another computer (such as a wall screen)

Gershenfeld’s long-standing belief that “ the real promise of connecting computers is to free people by embedding the means to solve problems in the things around us. “

Cyborg computing :

Cyborg computing in what Mann calls “Cyborgspace” are not. In his view, a dehumanizing dystopia but are a defenseive strategy against technological tyranny.

Mann’s reaction to the technologically enhanced Society of the Spectacle that surrounds him is to use WearComp to filter commercial advertisements out of his visual field.

Mann understood that one cyborg would not change society. True democratization would only grow from mass adoption of the technology. The community of cyborgs he had longed for in the lonely early decades of his life slowly began to emerge. A documentary film about Mann, titled Cyberman premiered in March 2002.

It seems clear that the next 10 years will see more and more inanimate objects joining the web and more people linked through mobile group-forming network technologies. … depends less on computing power or communications bandwidth and more on trust and willingness to risk the suckers payoff. That’s where reputation could make the crucial difference.

Reputation:

Reputation marks the spot where technology and cooperation converge. The most long-lasting social effects of technology always go beyond the quantitative efficiency of doing old things more quickly or more cheaply. The most profoundly transformative potential of connecting human social proclivities to the efficiency of the information technologies is the chance to do new things together, the potential for cooperating on scales and in ways never before possible. Limiting factors in the growth of human social arrangements have always been overcome by the ability to cooperate on larger scales: the emergence of agriculture ten thousand years ago, the origin of the alphabet five thousand years ago, the development of sciences, the nation state, the telegraph in recent centuries, did more than accelerate the pace of life and make it possible for the human population to expand. These cultural levers also enlarged the scale of cooperation, radically altering the way people live.

Trading know-how with people on six continents in real time, however , is more than just new: it fundamentally transforms knowledge-sharing by drastically lowering the transaction cost of matching questions and answers.

The opposite of the free rider problem emerged in a number of forms-hordes of compulsive contributors. (snow crash)

“Imagine a world where there are two kinds of media power: one comes through media concentration, where any message gains authority simply by being broadcast on network television; the other comes through grass-roots intermediaries, where a message gains visibility only if it is deemed relevant to a loose network of diverse publics. Broadcasting will place issues on the national agenda and define core values; bloggers will reframe those issues for different publics and ensure that everyone has a chance to be heard.”

-Brandon

Key breakthroughs won’t come from established industry citations of amateurs. Especially associations of amateurs.
Handheld devices are now able to locate other devices on the continent within a few yards
Moore’s law – computer chips get cheaper and more powerful
Metacafe’s law pg xv
A new kind of digital divide will come in ten years when people who know how to use technology will band to gather leaving those who don’t behind pg xix
The emergence of the cell phone has brought about the creation of a new digital public space that is available from anywhere in the world pg 5

Keys to a Smart Mob
· Democracy
· Regulation and deregulation
· Central of media and present
Tech
· Good
· Merely a tool
o The people must maintain the tools
o Maintain control over the tools
People
· Motivated by individual interest
· Must maintain human dignity
o Mechanizing leads to degrading human dignity

External Links

samad64 — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:12:40 CDT

Smart Mobs

Author's Site: http://www.smartmobs.com/
Definition / Synopsis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_mob
Book Summary:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Mobs:_The_Next_Social_Revolution

Remediation

Paper Machine

Definition / Synopsis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida

Assignment Zero Readings:

Assignment Zero About Page
How This Works Page
Intro to Assignment Zero - Jay Rosen: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/assignment_zero_all
Open Source Journalism (AZ-produced article): http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/view_from_crowds
Creative Crowndwriting - The Open Book: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/creative_crowdwriting
Did Assignment Zero Fail? http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/assignment_zero_final

Epic

Video: http://epic.lightover.com/

Hartley

RSS:

Video Tutorial: http://thecommoncraftshow.blip.tv/file/205570/
Why RSS is crucial for a Blogging Classroom: http://blogsforlearning.msu.edu/articles/view.php?id=6
Definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed

Blogging:

What we do when we blog: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/13/megnut.html

Uses of Blogs homepage: http://snurb.info/

Frequencies of Public Writing:

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/hartley.html
Chapter 16 Excerpt: http://web.mit.edu/transition/subs/hartley.html

Wikipedia Stuff

Alex Reid - Digital Digs

Blog: http://alexreid.typepad.com/

Ubiquitous Computing

The Good, the Bad, And the 'Web 2.0'

JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:09:00 CDT

This Wall Street Journal article contains highlights of an email exchange between Andrew Keen and David Weinberger. Mr. Keen derides the rise of "Web 2.0" as infatuation with the vulgar at expense of the well cultured picks of mainstream media. Mr. Weinberger counters his claims that Web 2.0 is worse than the mainstream media that preceeded it.

Main points from each author (not in any particular order)

Andrew Keen	David Weinberger
Everyone can't be an author Digital narcissism Miscellany is a euphemism for anarchy	Finding connections important Abundance of the Web vs the scarcity of mainstream media Interaction and community with others important
Traditional media acts as gatekeepers for finding talent Traditional media engineerstalent, providing stables of good taste and critical judgment	Talent not black and white, there are shades Mainstream media wants to move units, not promote talent
Epistemological anchor of truth lost in Web 2.0 Lack of truth creates intellectual poverty	Many truths provide for better points of view
Vulgar	Availability of lots of different tastes Long tail is where it matters
Accountable experts	Web 2.0 allows professionals to engage in the discussion, not just the self proclaimed experts

Raw Notes (9-27)

JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:07:12 CDT

Blog writting

link
stylize

line length
emphasis
lead paragraphs with leading sentences

don't reproduce thoughts

Mobile Crunch

Claims

Pixophone == art

people who use cellphone != art

==> Artist == not public educated

==> Intentionality

Implicit made explicit

Wikipedia

few contributors or not
changes by few
word count by many
Seigenthaler Affair

Wikipedia right/wrong?

Does not change invalid data
Difference of generations

why didn't he just correct it and get on with his life?

He is less important than he thought

Conservapedia

Extreme Bias (guess which direction...)

Citizendium

A better Wikipedia
Organized along academic topics
In the end will be folded back into Wikipedia, making it better

Raw Notes (9-25)

JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:06:47 CDT

Wikipedia

neutral
defines the 21st Century knowledge?
defines veracity
Mahalo.com

human vetted searches
librocentric

book way, "library of Alexandria"

synopsis

PowerPoint rhetoric, good for facts

text
collaborative vs elder model

mob =>

experts =>

one person

paper

table of contents, linear

monsterous offspring
language barriers

Tower of Babel

neutral point of view
Word Count

does not indicate importance (unlike Britannica)

Contextualized
Knowledge now vs past, history

in the event as it happens

Facebook article mentioning MS valuation
Making money with Wikipedia:
Better Interface
Cognative Maps

ease of access
no market in production
direct production
more, faster content
hierarchy

higher-ups act as caretakers

number of eyes (like open-source software)
verifiability

mountweazel

fake words used to copyright fact collections

page count not important
lexiographers not important
discussion of topics, discursively produced

09-27

JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:55:39 CDT

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:55:14 CDT

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:54:43 CDT

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:53:54 CDT

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:25:10 CDT

Assignment Zero

Community too wide
no training
coherence / unity

process / product

Computer

citizen journalists / professional journalists
"players", cheats, trivals

Community is King

Structure
Discussion
Authority
Pro-Amateur

Art
Journalism

encyclopedia
knowledge

Doug Russkoff

exit strategy

Crowd Sourcing vs Smart Mob

corporatism
labor units
focus -- structure vs freedom

content
jobs

Student Blogs

JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:55:32 CDT

Download this Link for feed List

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:50:45 CDT

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:39:27 CDT

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:38:59 CDT

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:38:29 CDT

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:37:57 CDT

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:37:18 CDT

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:36:50 CDT

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JohnnyCasey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:33:53 CDT

network capital

Bourdeau

Money
Education
Culture
+ Networks
= Smart Mobs

Technology
Access
Easy

Marx / Im al'Doon (SPELLING???)

Tribes

Heirarchies
feudal states

Markets
mech?

Mobs

Barriers

Industry $
Intellectual Property != access
Individual interests

People	Technology
eliminates human dignity math emotion maintain control	good communication tool reasoning

Democracy
Regulation & Deregulation
Decentralization of Media (Rupert Murdock problem)
Organization

transferring
interface
losing control of the tool

DNA / nanotechnology

social machines - mega machine

cars humanize / mechanize

CMC Midterm Wiki Fun - Recently Updated Pages

Smart Mobs

External Links

The Good, the Bad, And the 'Web 2.0'

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