Web activism: Digital Stockholm syndrome

Anyone who goes out of social networks loses visibility. Resisting from the inside is difficult. The netactives are in a pinch.

Web activism: Digital Stockholm syndrome
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    Five stages of mourning go through people according to scheme that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross designed in her book on Death and Dying 1969: Denial, anger, negotiation, depression, acceptance. The reception of Cambridge Analytica scandal seems to adhere to this pattern. At end of March, it became known that British company had a questionable access to profile information of 87 million Facebook users and had used it to influence ir electoral behavior. Such businesses are not really new, but this has long been denied by masses – phase one. There followed anger (DeleteFacebook, smashing!), from which quickly became a need for negotiation (RegulateFacebook, nationalization!). At latest as CEO Mark Zuckerberg in mid-April overtaxed U.S. Senators DasGeschäftsmodell had to declare his company, Phase four entered: depression. And today, a few weeks after scandal, it seems as if most of Würdendie will accept system again as it is.

    So what's left? Wait for Zuckerberg to runtertuned "Erstevernetzte Emotion machine of World" (Sascha Lobo) to a niedlichenNon profit? Delete an account and pretend you don't miss photos, videos, articles and messages of your friends? Create your own platforms? Or just keep posting, with half-open eyes in DieDystopie? In New York, scientists, journalists, activists, artists and programmers meet once a year to discuss current state of art of interactivity. Theorizing The web is conference that took place for eighth time in Queen's. Most of participants are around 30, re are vieleMarxisten and anarchists, some are writing ir PhD sis, anderesind as an internet orist already established.

    "Liberal" Here is a swear word

    Theorizing The Web was founded by Nathan Jurgenson, in-house sociologist of Snapchat. Before it starts, Erauf points out Antidiskriminierungsregeln, "and who does not understand, kannjetzt go". The conference participants agreed on EineAutorität, which will frighten some liberals. And exactly 's goal. "Liberal" is a swear word here, associated with Hillary Clinton, comedian Jimmy Fallon, or New York Times opinion Department. "Liberal" stands for FürPersonen and institutions that quoaufrechterhalten capitalist status.

    Undwofür is left, except for anticapitalism? "Socialism over Blockchain" is presentation of Grayon Earle, a new YorkerProfessor for computer science and media arts. At latest election of Donald Trump has made it clear that "we must separate ourselves from established forms of DesKlicktivismus". Changing profile picture for a few days or posting DeleteFacebook is simply not enough.

    Coins for detainees

    Under talibanregime name Dark Inquiry, Earle and several or Programmiererund artists joined in past year and launched bail bloc, an app that supports New York prisoners. "The US AmerikanischeJustizsystem is based on fact that most people cannot afford ir bail," said Earle. Bail bloc is a form of resistance – and Funktionierenur by collectivism. People download software to ir computer, Diefortan in background digital money. At end of each month Tauschendie Dark inquiry makers donate money from Kryptowährung Monero in US dollars umund to Bronx Freedom Fund. 7,000 US dollars have been bislanggesammelt, "not much", Earle knows, but it is also about symbolism. "To reject StattKryptowährungen and technology in general, we should rar write code our future economic and financial system ourselves," he said.

    In next room, participants will discuss how digitalePlattformen form citizen. Anastasis Germanidis, a griechischerKünstler and software developer, quotes Oscar Wilde: "Man is least he himself when he speaks Fürsich himself. Give him a mask and he'll tell you truth. " Germanidis pleads for more than just a properson mask. He developed a few years ago app Antipersona, which "EinenEinblick into online worlds of or people". You can experience soTwitter from perspective of anor user for 24 hours. A gimmick, Dasweiß also Germanidis, but in long run it is about more: "I want to dasKonzept different identities to resist Überwachungsapparatbenutzen. And maybe someday we can even share identities, "he says. Anor panel that deals with Repräsentationvon Querness on Internet also stresses need for vonnichtstatischen identities. The message is same: less appreciate you categorize, better.

    Date Of Update: 09 May 2018, 12:03
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