Government & Social Media Mathias Klang @klang67
Government & Social MediaMathias Klang @klang67
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Doing on social media
Paul Chambers
"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"
Navy instructor pilots lose flying status for Lake Tahoe dip
"En dag kvar av veckan på detta dårhus"
MATS MÜGGE
”Jättebra barnskötare - men texten är inte förenlig med vår verksamhet”
Naken rektor
Fotade & laddade upp bilder
Kommenterade bilderna
Tysta gruppen
How or Why?
stupid
thoughtless
Technology made me do it
rules
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced… to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes … and serves as a social mediator of relations between people.
Norms from above
Power to the people: Democracy
Power of the technocracy
Socio-legal regulation
Law
Contextual & programmed social
rules
Architecture
Technology makes society
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
Democracy & participation
300 years ago The “Swedish” radical Anders chydenius
Revolution: Arab spring
What is free speech & censorship
It’s a means to reach an ends
Chilling effects
but before the ends – what are the hinders?
Layers of control
VOICEVOICE
TRANSPARENCYTRANSPARENCY
STRANGLEHOLD OF MIDDLEMENSTRANGLEHOLD OF MIDDLEMEN
FEAR OF FAILUREFEAR OF FAILURE
Voice
Technology brings theoretical rights within practical reach
transparency
stranglehold
fear
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all
right-thinking people will accept without question...
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds
himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.
Twitter “Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country”
when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a specific country
(1) we will attempt to let the user know,
(2) we will clearly mark when the content has been withheld.
(3) As part of that transparency, we’ve expanded our partnership with Chilling Effects
Employees & policies
Empirical study
Policy drivers
Policies
From < 1 page to 20 pages
19 criminal law18 administrative law
17 purpose of social media
11 clear analogue bias
General conflicts
What is social media?
Public or private space
Employee’s use of social media as workEmployee’s use of social media during workEmployee’s use of social media after work
The unaddressed cloud
Promoting private corporationsPersonal data transfersLoss of control
Property, privacy & voice
Chydenius dream?
Why?
The network effect
The design effectYou know you want to…
Autonomy!
Autonomy without knowledge…
Eula trumps rights
If you’re not the customer you’re the product
Regulation of technology is the regulation of democracy
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis?
Thank you.
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• Mathias Klang. [email protected] or @klang67