The document discusses control and autonomy in social media. It touches on several topics: - The rise of social media platforms like Blogger and Google and how they ended the communications monopoly and allowed for more open conversations online. - However, it also notes concerns about how social media and constant connectivity may be "infantilising" people's brains and reducing attention spans. - Issues of data privacy, surveillance, and how users are the products being sold through their data on these platforms are also examined. - The document raises questions about who truly has control in the online space and what the impacts of long-term social media usage may be on people and society.

1. Control and autonomy
in social media
Mathias Klang
@klang67

2. Beware the metaphor

4. This is not a shopping cart

6. Computer resources over a
network

7. What, who, how
much?  Why?

8. Cloudwashing

9. End user services: social media

10. Blogger1999Google1999
End of communications monopoly

11. 2006

12. "Out of this anarchy…
what was governing
the infinite monkeys
now inputting away on
the Internet was the
law of digital
Darwinism, the survival
of the loudest and most
opinionated.”
Andrew Keen: Cult of the amateur
(2007)

13. Normalizing the abnormal

14. Optimism: conversation
& convenience

17. Pessimist talk

22. This is not a phone

23. Always online

24. The end of boredom

25. “My fear is that these
technologies are
infantilising the brain into
the state of small children
who are attracted by
buzzing noises and bright
lights, who have a small
attention span and who
live for the moment.”
Prof. Susan Greenfield

26. Performance lifestyle

27. Social networks

28. ETHICAL CONCERNS

29. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

30. if you're not
paying for
something,
you're not the
customer;
you're the
product being
sold

31. Institutionalized surveillance

32. The right to be forgotten

33. National
surveillance

34. "If we don't teach our children to be alone all they
will be is lonely" Sherry Turkle

35. Warrantless surveillance

36. Who is in control?

37. What does it
all mean?

38. Old stupidity or
new intelligence?

39. Can we quit? If we quit
will we have deep
thoughts?

40. Are those of
us who
remember
the analogue
age fortunate
or
unfortunate?

41. Remember this?

42. Monotask queuing

43. Not knowing

44. Waiting by THE phone

45. Technology changes us
& we change it

46. The advantages are huge

47. The weakest link

48. My awesome coffee

49. THANKS!

50. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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