micropolitics: by example!
have fun!
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM, victoria sinclair
<vickysinclair@???>wrote:
> wonderful! now we know!
>
> maybe we need some junior brico consultancy for the old skoolers....
>
> maybe they can book us into our retirement homes via their facebook
> and orkut networks....?
>
> hehe - it is all amusing and it does resonate with some questions i
> have -- - - for instance i had to sign up to facebook because some of
> my best friends will only respond to facebook and therefore my option
> is to stay in touch with them or lose contact
>
> so i opted for FB
>
> however my personal issue is with all these psychometric 'fun things'
> -- and how my friends appear to be happy to work out their emotional
> iq, which super hero they are most like, which drug they are most like
> etc....
>
> all time consuming and all logged by these strange owners of fun wall
> and FB....
>
> Facebook and its equivalents have basically, in my opinion, tied into
> the cult of the personality that pervades a lot of thinking right now.
> Pop idol, facebook, - the whole mcdonaldisation debates. Easy and
> simple way to get large disclosures and continue with ego stroking.
>
> In many countries in europe right now as with usa and probably canada
> too we have prime time talent contests, and a general push towards the
> cult of the personality
>
> This tendency for young people, older people etc to utilise
> personality and ego based social media ties in with this also - - and
> for me here lies a problem wihich i believe is articulated perfectly
> in ricardo's post.
>
> Right now may be seen as the old, the uncool. Just like my dad saying
> that the music i listened to as a teenager was all 'bang, bang, bang'
> and my grandmother could not even identify it as music - -we are here
> now, on that side of proceedings.
>
> I personally don't want to control or affect the vision of the young -
> BUT - they are not receiving adequate media or visual literacy
> training. Therefore i feel they are not equipped with the right tools
> to discern the meaning from the source and how more complex
> interlocutory relations may be present.
>
> what do people think? where do our responsibilties lie? Am i being
> old and boring by even raising a discussion here?
>
> how can we equip the young to guide this as they are our new
> decision-makers and can we inform them in a positive way....?
>
> vicky
>
>
>
>
> On 9/24/09, ricardo ruiz <doutorsocratesoreidofutebol@???> wrote:
> > Inaê, lelex doughter, said to me:
> >
> > - i know why u use email. you are old.
> >
> >
> > go ninja, go
> >
> >
> > 2009/9/20 Felipe Fonseca <felipefonseca@???>
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Tati Wells escreveu:
> >>
> >>> what is rather sad is that these commercial systems are sometimes the
> >>> only
> >>> opportunity of self-expression here, they cannot be altogether
> ignored...
> >>> but I have to agree with james that they only replicate what the
> >>> programmers
> >>> of the systems put forward or hide and that is basicaly how TV
> >>> corporations
> >>> work. you can only chose a shade of blue...
> >>>
> >>
> >> agred, but again, isn't that an issue in any IT? any mailing list, wiki
> or
> >> blog has also restrictions. ok, with free software, those skilled enough
> >> can
> >> create our own parallel infrastructure. but most people are not
> interested
> >> in learning that much, and will make use of commercial systems such as
> >> Orkut
> >> and MSN. what I'm suggesting is that we should focus instead on enabling
> >> critical appropriation - use anything you need to communicate, but be
> >> always
> >> aware there are better, free, alternatives, and everything you do has
> >> consequences. if we criticize mobile internet because it is based in a
> >> pay-per-use basis, once they change that our criticism is empty. if we
> say
> >> people can't hack their devices, or use them to acces information via
> >> networks other than the mobile operators, or... use keyboards - we will
> be
> >> taken by these young generations as irrelevant, because they know they
> can
> >> do all that.
> >>
> >> I decided to stop trying to convince my younger brothers and sisters - a
> >> lot of people - to use e-mail. it just doesn't make sense to them.
> >>
> >>
> >> efe
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> >
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