Ubiquitous Commons
Ubiquitous Commons
Ubiquitous Commons
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PHASE 1
the Commons
the Ubiquitous
Commons
concepts
origins
now
what do we want to
do?
examples
PHASE 2
research
technology
discussion
prototypes
lets start!
creepy VS positive
everything started for us when we realised that some of the
research and artworks we were making were at the same time
creepy and extremely positive.
they could bring to wonderful opportunities for communities and
individuals, but they could also lead to radical surveillance and
broken rights and freedoms, depending on how they were used
all by redefining our public/private/intimate spheres
some examples
VersuS
we captured the real-time digital life of cities
http://www.artisopensource.net/projects/versus-the-realtime-lives-of-cities.html
Love VS Turin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PRMn4upxHg
Riots VS Rome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVvIGQ3Q0Jg
http://artisopensource.net/projects/enlarge-your-consciousness.html
Incautious Porn
a company harvests peoples comments on pornographic
websites, turns them into paintings, and sells them for 50$
commodify everything
http://www.artisopensource.net/projects/incautious-porn.html
Human Ecosystems
capture the real-time digital life of the city, turn it into a
source of Open Data, make a museum out of it, so that you
can experience the Relational Ecosystem of the city, build an
education process in which everyone learns how to use this
data for research, art, design, civic action, participatory
public administration, citizen self-organisation, and more
http://human-ecosystems.com/home/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9djF9-Ec1yI
people can see the relational ecosystem of the city, and learn how to use it
(for example, it is currently being used to study the water crisis in Sao Paulo)
some of the people in the Arab Spring, in Cairo, using social networks
(there are currently about 300 times as many, in the database)
Stakhanov
a BigData God, harvests information from social networks
about millions of people, searches for patterns in the data,
uses the patterns to make predictions about peoples
interests, emotions, locations, times, and activities.
it is the Oracle of the age of BigData
Stakhanovs Cosmology
explains how it works, and its philosophy
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-initiative
transformation of
private/public/intimate space
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/technology/acxiom-the-quiet-giant-of-consumer-database-marketing.html?pagewanted=all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7P2ViCRObs
the transformation is
conscious / unconscious
(& algorithms which do weird things)
example!
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/leave-your-cellphone-at-home/
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/miss-a-payment-good-luck-moving-that-car/
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/07/belkin-acknowledges-its-routers-cannot-access-the-internet-and-issues-workaround/
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/when-everything-works-like-your-cell-phone/379820/
but theres
APIs!
not really limits, and stuck in a software ecosystem
Stacks!
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-sterling-on-why-it-stopped-making-sense-to-talk-about-the-internet-in-2012/266674/
ALGORITHMS
https://medium.com/message/ferguson-is-also-a-net-neutrality-issue-6d2f3db51eb0
Ferguson on Twitter
Ferguson on Facebook
https://medium.com/message/ferguson-is-also-a-net-neutrality-issue-6d2f3db51eb0
http://technosociology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Zeynep-Computational-Politics-and-Engineering-the-Public.pdf
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117878/information-fiduciary-solution-facebook-digital-gerrymandering
The Basics from profile information: * Age, country, region, city; *Family background, family names; *Education; *
Religion; * Occupation; * Hobbies; * Books, papers, magazines read; * Music preferences; * TV program preferences; *
Political opinions; * Online spending; * Brand and product interests; * Languages you understand; * Sexual preferences; *
Travel and holidays;
Aggregated social data: * Your status; * Knowledge and skills. * Home and car class; * Estimated income and wealth; *
Social position and that of friends; * Living and family situation; * Use of PC, gadgets, software etc.; * When you are at home;
* Places where you are out; * What times you are online and with what intentions; * Good and bad days; * When youre horny.
Also to consider: * Pace of life; * Diseases and disorders; * Concentration cycle throughout the day; * Whether you are
persistent or give up quickly; * Work behavior and effort; * Private browsing during work hours; * Preferences between text,
photo and video; * Proceedings of contact; * Intensity of contact; * Attention to different relationships / friends; * Frequency
and likelihood of new relationships; * Approach to individuals and businesses; * Choice of words and attitude; * Secret
desires and fantasies; * Creativity; * Logical thinking; * Non-conscious and irrational behaviors; * Rational choices and
weight given to these; * Emotions in experiences and exposures; * Behavior in different emotions; * Degree of happiness.
http://youarewhatyoulike.com/
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-facebook-for-two-days-heres-what-it-did-to-me/
or the opposite
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/08/what_happens_if_you_hide_everything_on_facebook_i_tried_it_for_a_day.html
https://medium.com/backchannel/google-search-will-be-your-next-brain-5207c26e4523
all data
is credit data
examples could go
on and on
the Commons
origins
example:
FRENCH REVOLUTION
NEW REGIME
ABOLISH COMMONS
PUBLIC PROPERTY
ACCESSIBLE TO
THE PUBLIC
COMMON LAND
and
PUBLIC PROPERTY
VS
PRIVATE PROPERTY
(commons disappear as well as the rights of the commoners and the perception to self-regulate the commons)
self interest
Hobbes
collaboration
impossible
RATIONAL CHOICE
personal
advantage
example:
AIR
AIR POLLUTION
AIR POLLUTION
https://niepleuen.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/introduction-to-the-commons-and-some-definitions/
now
https://niepleuen.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/introduction-to-the-commons-and-some-definitions/
in historical commons:
access was clearly defined: it was open
people met and lived in the same village
high quality communication
knowledge of the intentions and context of peers
monitoring of activities easy and direct
.
Danil Verhoeven
changes
(bodies, emotions, locations,
opinions, relations, health)
data & information are different in quantitative, qualitative, philosophical,political,
biopolitical, social terms, and in terms of rights, freedoms, environment
WHAT:
legal/technological/philosophical/
aesthetic toolkit
Commons as a Protocol
(for example inspired to Creative Commons)
is it a good idea?
I used to work in mainstream media and with large corporations. And honestly I felt very stifled, I couldnt do what I
wanted to do without asking for a lot of permission. What I saw with the internet was that it was a great way for people to
innovate, to think and create without asking permission, without having to wait until they are older. It was an amazingly
open thing. And for me, innovation, whether its political innovation or technical innovation or any kind of positive change,
is supported by this idea of the open internet.
We have various layers: very early we had the ethernet, and then we had the Internet protocol TCP/IP, and then we had the
web and now we have Creative Commons, which is very similar because its trying to create an open protocol that allows
things to connect without asking permission. Because in the past, you had asked permission to connect a modem to the
Internet. Then you had to ask permission before you set up a site. And now you have to ask permission before you use
somebodys content. And the idea of Creative Commons is to make a protocol that makes it easy to connect without
asking permission. This makes it impossible for large companies and governments to control the interconnect.
The non-profit things that I do and the for-profit things that I do are very similar because the for-profit companies that I
invest in are trying to innovate in technology and social software by using the Internet. They are typically very small teams
of people who create some product. And I think these small start-ups are creating the technology and the infrastructure
that builds these open networks. And they have the DNA of the open networks. And the non-profits that I work in like
Global Voices, Witness or Mozilla, Creative Commons, they are all non-profits that help try to coordinate all the people who
are involved in trying to create this open Internet.
For me I think that the open internet is not only an important business thing, I think its the pillar for an open society in the
21st century.
Joi Ito on We Magazine
Risk:
addressing only the Common Research Pools
and not also the
High Quality Relational Environment which is needed
for ensuring that the Commons can be managed
meaningfully by and through the community
avoid:
commodification of everything
promote:
reconsideration of property
responsibility
ethics
relationality
trust
EXAMPLE
implementing this:
a browser plugin using which users easily post encrypted data on social networks,
which can only be accessed through a decryption mechanism which is external to
the social network, on the BlockChain, where the user also specifies who can access
the content, and in which ways (the user decides the license)
Twitter: @xdxd_vs_xdxd
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