The Influence of ICT on Social Relations – Informática y Sociedad – 18.12.2012

View Github Repository Open presentation in a new window

AndreRoehrig

See all presentation from AndreRoehrig

The Influence of ICT on Social Relations – Informática y Sociedad – 18.12.2012

0 0

ICT_Social

Presentation Madrid 2012

On Github AndreRoehrig / ICT_Social

The Influence of ICT on Social Relations

Informática y Sociedad

18.12.2012

———

André Röhrig

Table of Contents

Telegraph Networks Email Usenet The 90s Specialized Social Networks Facebook Twitter Love

The Victorian Internet:

Global Telegraph Networks

  • instant massaging
  • proto-memes
  • early "Hacking" aka money transfer fraud
  • very limited availability

The First Email

  • using ARPANET in 1971
  • Ray Tomlinson was the pioneer
Sending electronic mail over the ARPANET for commercial profit or political purposes is both anti-social and illegal. By sending such messages, you can offend many people, and it is possible to get MIT in serious trouble with the Government agencies which manage the ARPANET.

Usenet

  • connected to ARPANET in 1980, today insignificant
  • different "part" of the internet: NOT worldwideweb
  • similar in use to forums
  • established many customs still known today in forums, blogs and social networks

The 1990s

The 1990s

  • mainstream use of the internet
  • chatrooms, instant messaging
  • services to build primitive websites
  • after the DotCom-Bubble burst investors became sceptic of the social web

Specialized Social Networks

  • "Web 2.0"
  • user generated content

A social network for pictures:

A social network for music:

Well, and then there was this:

(they called it MySpace)

Facebook

  • in the beginning: a combination of successful ideas pioneered by others
  • chat, pictures, personal website("wall"),…
  • exceptional influence on social conventions
  • 1 billion active users
  • company value: $58 billion

Twitter

  • radical simplification of everything social networks were known for
  • the idea: Realtime
  • "to tweet" has been adopted all around the world
  • 500 million active users

Perspective: Love in the Digital Age

Reification

  • the vivid process of being in love becomes a "thing"

Identity

  • social networks make it impossible be someone else, to be "more" than yourself

Slides: is.gd/infosoc

Sourcecode: github.com/andreroehrig

Thank you for your attention!