Thursday, April 16, 2009

Photo Scavenger Hunt!
Find a space that is 'personal' and share it with the class.

One of the elements of this sharing is that you often discover things because you're forced to look at them again.  It's because they were routine.  

As the become part of your routine, do you think about them?
Do you think about them?
Should you think about them?
You become blinded by the specific/various features.
The more you engage the less you see the features.  Does going to it again bring up something?

Does introducing people to your space, does it change?
When you to the same places over and over, the space changes.  The consequences of sharing.
How do you benefit as the party doing the sharing?
Benevolence?
Affirmation?  Ego?
Share and share alike?  Hope to get back?
Share now and hope someone will share with me later?
Do people always share back?

Greedy with free stuff.
I'm willing to take but not to give back.
Implicates a certain, interpretation of what free means.
If you let something be free:
- take away limits --> Implies more choices
- control of ownership 
What does it mean with something free:
- no cost
- no formal obligations

Fiduciary responsibility.
- don't have to be explicit about but mutually understands.

If you get something free say it's all about cost / obligations / restrictions
Is there anything else?
Does it is suggest that there isn't thing else that is free?  Time / energy.

If you have this notion of free and free of cost.  Nothing is legitimately free, everything has some sort of cost.  Does free mean something has no value or is free the absence of cost.  No cost or is worthless?

Does free mean that is without worth?
Does worth imply ownership?  if there is ownership is there freedom in the exchange?
You don't directly get any financial compensation.
Social value vs financial value
Is it predicated on equal concepts of giver / receivers 
Relative to who you are, depending on your position.

If we're engaged in participatory means, especially in social.
Moves from verb sense to noun sense.

Can associate freely online?
Illusion that you can.
Depending on service.
Possible, but mediated by invisible layer - software, host etc

Level of responsibility - moral to self, integrity
Great idea that this influx of freedom.
With email in the 90's they found it was more freeing.  People found that they could be more terse.  How the immediacy places out.   Less formal.

Illusion of democratising element of the internet.  Want to believe that they can do without restriction.  

Lormer and Gasher
- one to many
- mass communication not because one to many but because so many are connected.  (everyone is doing it)

What happens in large act of freedom?
- market capitialisation
- perhaps place to make money.
- element of freedom removed?
- less and less free as more do it
- external factors - capture attention
- ie YouTube/ Facebook over the course of time, become less freeing because more rules
- ('89) freedom is a road rarely travelled the multitude
- The more people know about it, the more it's diminished.
- when anyone can go, theoretically everyone will go
- as more people do it, more regulation - by norms and culture
- in the end freedom allows you to do anything, but also lays groundwork to be restricted.
- as more pursue the freedom of digital democracy, along the way more rules will be enforced - common rules of practice
- the freedom that started it starts to get squelched or disappears
- by sharing we ruin the product
- maintenance of elitism.
- by moving to new tech / platforms
- in the waves of the future are the seas of demise

- through sharing you alter it.


Should we freely share because that it the will of the people or should we keep it to ourselves

Why tag a door that no one will see?
Or is that effective?  You just want those who will see it to take know?

Does the ownership of the space change by virtue of who's in it?
By association?

Manufacture of consent
- bombardment from multiple angles
- adopt those roles ourselves
- rather than manufactures trying to produce, how to get us to think we came up with the idea ourselves
- when you buy something, and you speak as you own it
- if you can't tell you didn't come up with it in the first place it's a hard sell
 






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