IS52026 Social Computing Week 6: programming & participatory culture dan mcquillan

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Napster from friends sharing to mass... delegation of information to a sociotechnical ecosystem of information technologies and a plurality of users. Campaigns against home taping and the litigation against the VCR copying = theft if someone steals a purse, the purse is actually taken away from its owner, whereas a file that is copied does not disappear. Battle = discourse, tech, law

Business model no longer mechanical scarcity attacks by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and its equivalents in Europe... the music industry tried to establish monetary punishment as a new business model. Users who copy = thieves & robbers. Harassing mothers. Pushing unis to filter. counter productive Illegal downloaders 'spend the most on music', says poll 2009 The survey, published today, found that those who admit illegally downloading music spent an average of 77 a year on music 33 more than those who claim that they never download music dishonestly.

"Only recently the DCMS told us that they have no evidence of the effects of copyright infringement, http://www.outlaw.com/en/articles/2011/november/foirequestrevealsplansforr Drm. playing involves copying. Recall doctorow. 2005: Sony rootkit. Deinstall more! copy protection software was itself infringing copy rights by using opensource code. Dmca acta

Bittorrent estimated that it accounted for roughly 43% to 70% of all Internet traffic (depending on geographical location) as of February 2009 BitTorrent client uses "optimistic unchoking", whereby the client reserves a portion of its available bandwidth for sending pieces to random peers (not necessarily known good partners, so called preferred peers) in hopes of discovering even better partners and to ensure that newcomers get a chance to join the swarm # Facebook uses BitTorrent to distribute updates to Facebook servers.[29] # Twitter uses BitTorrent to distribute updates to Twitter servers.[3 film communities translated and subtitled audience for undervalued films by reintroducing them tech/framework ratio rules both currrency & reputation Hackers affiliated with these communities develop software required to accomplish many of the tasks outlined above: subtitle authoring and synchronization; transcoding; tools for working with audio and video streams; database management; improved distribution protocols and clients. /book: CollaborativeFutures, n.d. http://www.booki.cc/collaborativefutures/.

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Participation in production & distribution but both ways on one hand, the quality of the new technologies described in chapter 3 constituted an extension of production and distribution channels into the realm of the user, but on the other hand, the culture industries started to extend themselves into users media practices by integrating user activities into new platforms and services. Mirko Tobias Schafer, Bastard Culture!: How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production (Amsterdam University Press, 2011). Immaterial labour the labor that produces the informational and cultural content of the commodity. Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy, Tiziana Terranova the Internet is always and simultaneously a gift economy and an advanced capitalist economy. remember: if the product is free.... fb, youtube, flickr... Lawrence Lessig the sharecropper of the digital age. "are we really meant to see people who sit at their computers modifying code or typing out responses to TV shows as exploited in the same way as those who endure appalling conditions and pay in Indonesian sweatshops?

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Oreilly v black foam OReilly points out the value of software is proportional to the scale and dynamism of the data it helps to manage web 2.0 has been described by Tim OReilly as an architecture of participation (OReilly 2005). In this programmatic text, OReilly advocates the rigorous imple mentation of user activities into software design. metainformation users generate on Flickr or Delicious, for instance, contributes to search requests on Yahoo and helps the company to improve their search engine My experience 1) build us a user community 2) mine the data archi tecture of exploitation (Petersen 2008). Bandwidth The estimated traffic costs of Google subsidiary YouTube are in the region of $30 million a month cultural resource Google Earth and Google Maps, The APIs were developed to be powerful gatekeepers of information flow and regulate to a large extent how open a system is and what data and functions can be embedded or shared. Schafer, Bastard Culture! p22

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Explicit participation is driven by motivation, and is diverse Implicit participation is channeled by design, by means of easyto use interfaces, and the automation of user activity processes Easy to use by design Not customer support but user and software governance. companies and users = society lawlike texts = terms of use. Less products, more public spaces. if citizens, then corp = = gov? Values transparent privacy abolish patents and limit copyright.

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850,000 votes they won in national elections Origin sweden fight against software patents criminalization of copyright monopoly violations by downloading (It was important to pretty much everybody except the politicians) December 14, 2005, the European Parliament had passed the Data Retention Directive. Pirate bay raid 2006 September 18, 2011 9 percent Berlin parliament, several seats.

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These examples also indicate that a strict enforcement of copyright law inevitably invades citizen privacy and therefore constitutes a means of repression. SOPA advertising + credit cards. Wikileaks. Break DNS. Ban tools. blacklist Overreach... china DEA

ANT. Ecosystem. affordance, design and appropriation. All successful online music services are provided by companies which do not originate from the established music industry. Last.fm The audioscrobbler enables Last.fm to establish an exact count, while performance rights organizations can actually only give an estimate. open db

Version control + dvcs Google Code began supporting Mercurial, Cannonical, /Ubuntu free Bazaar hosting to open source projects GitHub.com social coding site which provides Git hosting and rich social networking tools. SourceForge is about projects. GitHub is about people A world of programmers forking, hacking and experimenting. There is merging, but only if people agree to do so, by other channels GitHub gives me my own place to play. It lets me share my code the way I share photos on Flickr, the same way I share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Heres something I found useful, for what it's worth Moreover, I'm sharing my code, for what it's worth to me to share my code I am sharing my code. I am not launching an open source project. I am not beginning a search for like minded developers to avoid duplication of efforts. I am not showing up at someone elses door hat in hand, asking for commit access. I am not looking to do battle with Brooks Law at the outset of my brainstorm Gutier

It is therefore necessary to take a step beyond understanding participatory culture as merely appropriating consumer goods; instead, it can be seen as the constitution of a technologically aware society where new media practices transform many aspects of everyday life, including politics, the economy, and public discourse. Nike Hitler parody