Slides da apresentação do prof Pierre Levy sobre Cyberdemocracy no dia 17 de Março de 2014 no SENAC Sto Amaro.

1. Cyberdemocracy
Today
SENAC
2014
Prof.
Pierre
Lévy
Twi=er:
@plevy
Canada
Research
Chair
in
CollecFve
Inteligence
University
of
O=awa

3. The
Speed
of
Change
• Connected
world
populaFon
– 1994,
Year
0
of
the
Web:
–
1%
connected
– 2014,
20
years
later:
35%
connected
– +50%
very
soon
• Social
empowerment
– Free
and
massive
distribuFon
of
emission
and
recepFon,
rise
of
social
media
– Wordpress:
2003,
YouTube:
2005,
Facebook
&
Twi=er:
2006
• Material
– CompuFng:
biggest
part
now
in
the
cloud
– Interfaces:
dominaFon
of
smartphones
and
tablets
– IPhone:
2007,
IPad:
2010

4. An
Algorithmic
Medium
• Informa(on
ubiquity
• General
interconnec(on
of
people
and
content
• Automa(on
of
symbol
manipula(on:
algorithms
=>The
rise
of
the
algorithmic
medium
can
be
compared
to
the
invenFon
of
wriFng
5000
years
ago
⇒ Toward
new
content,
genres,
insFtuFons
and
techniques
of
communicaFon
⇒ The
future
global
civilizaFon
is
pracFcally
impossible
to
imagine

5. Layers of Political Subjectivity
Real time global interpersonal networked communication.
Distribution of communication power. Data-centric politics.
Control on algorithms and data. (Algorithmic medium)
National citizenship. Tax, health, education, justice, military,
discipline... (typographic medium)
Empire, geo-theological universal perspectives (literate
medium) Persian, Greek, Latin, Chinese, Indian, Anglo-
sax, etc.
F2F, family, nomadism, war. (oral medium)
« Down to earth », hierarchies (scribal medium)

6. A
Data-­‐Centric
Society
• SFgmergic
CommunicaFon
– CommunicaFon
by
transformaFon
of
a
common
environment
(the
digital
memory)
• The
power
of
meta-­‐data
– Meta-­‐data
=
classificaFon
/
organizaFon
of
data
– DemocraFzaFon
of
categorizaFon
#hashtags
• Data-­‐centric
insFtuFons
/
poliFcs
/
conflicts
– Organized
around
meta-­‐data,
data
and
algorithms

7. Cyberdemocracy:
distribuFon
of
power
in
the
global
soh
city
• Fight
censorship
and
compartmentalizaFon
• Foster
symmetric
transparency
and
net
neutrality
• Grow
the
commons
• Give
back
their
data
to
the
people
that
produce
them
• DemocraFze
big
data
analysis
• Spread
literacy
and
criFcal
thinking
adapted
to
the
algorithmic
medium
• Augment
collecFve
intelligence
by
making
it
reflexive

8. What
Is
an
Idea?
[Concept
+
Affect
+
Percept]
+
Social
context
TranslaFon
in
the
algorithmic
medium
of
the
future:
[Category
+
Value
+
Data]
+
Social
context
What
is
CogniFon?
Self-­‐reference,
growth,
reproducFon,
evoluFon,
cross-­‐pollinaFon
of
ecosystems
of
ideas

9. Reflexive
CollecFve
Intelligence
• Ecosystems
of
ideas
emerging
from
collecFve
intelligence
in
a
new
generaFon
of
social
media
• Displayed
around
each
people,
community,
thing,
place,
work
of
the
mind...
• InteracFon
through
holograms
in
VR
or
AR,
by
Google
glasses
or
tablet
• Embedded
powerful
tools
for
selecFon,
exploraFon,
analysis,
synthesis,
semanFc
distances
measurement
• Symbiosis
communiFes
/
ecosystems
of
ideas
• Symbiosis
individual
/
collecFve
learning