Category: Video

Malte Spitz ‘Your phone company is watching’

This is a Ted-talk which tackles the subject of ownership of your own data. Malte Spitz talks about how he tried getting is mobile phone data back and what he did with it. What is most important to me is that he highlights why it is so important to hang onto (or claim it back) self-determination. So many times, people around me are convinced that all this gathered data isn’t really of great threat or of great potential.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/malte_spitz_your_phone_company_is_watching.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

When It Comes to Politics, the Internet is Closing Minds

I have been given this link to a video which I would like to share here. It is a debate on wether ‘the internet is closing minds when it comes to politics’. Robert Rosenkranz is introducing the four panelists, Eli Pariser, Jacob Weisberg, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Evgeny Morozov. It might not be obvious from the title why this video is relevant to my research focus, but as soon as you listen into it you will discover the many ways my research will refer to this.

http://fora.tv/2012/04/17/When_It_Comes_to_Politics_the_Internet_is_Closing_Minds

 

 

Eli Pariser – “Beware online for Filter Bubbles”

Ich möchte hier ein paar Screenshots dieses TED talks zeigen, und ein paar seiner relevantesten Aussagen bezüglich meines Projektes zitieren.

http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zitat Eli Pariser via TED talk:

So it’s not just Google and Facebook either. This is something that’s sweeping the Web.There are a whole host of companies that are doing this kind of personalization. Yahoo News, the biggest news site on the Internet, is now personalized — different people get different things. Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the New York Times — all flirting with personalization in various ways. And this moves us very quickly toward a world in whichthe Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see. As Eric Schmidt said, “It will be very hard for people to watch or consume somethingthat has not in some sense been tailored for them.”

So I do think this is a problem. And I think, if you take all of these filters together, you take all these algorithms, you get what I call a filter bubble. And your filter bubble is your own personal, unique universe of information that you live in online. And what’s in your filter bubble depends on who you are, and it depends on what you do. But the thing is that you don’t decide what gets in. And more importantly, you don’t actually see what gets edited out.

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That, in fact, you couldn’t have a functioning democracy if citizens didn’t get a good flow of information,

Er sagt, die menschlichen “Gatekeepers” der Informationen hätten sich in “algorythmic gatekeepers” verwandelt.

Als Schlusszitat dies:

Hans Rosling’s Data Visualisation

“The Amazing Power of Data Visualization, Augmented Reality and Social Discovery”, Hans Rosling

http://unitystoakes.blogspot.com/2011/01/amazing-power-of-data-visualization.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ein schönes Beispiel von Informationsgrafik; aber ich denke, dass man hier die technischen Möglichkeiten von Feld der Augmented Reality noch freier Nutzen könnte. Meiner Ansicht nach ist diese Visualisierung zu nah an einem Video und einer 2D-Grafik.

 

December 5th, 2012

I would like to correct my earlier comment on Hans Rosling’s data visualisation. My mentor questioned my opinion above, and I think rightly so. For the non-german readers, to quote myself on what I said: ‘In my opinion, this visualisation is too close to a video and a 2D-graphic.’ In a purely technical way this might be true, but my comment does by far not give enough credit to Rosling’s work. He is the founder of gapminder.org, an organisation which is dedicated to ‘show the fact-based world-view’ http://www.gapminder.org/.

In this TED-talk  http://www.gapminder.org/videos/religions-and-babies/  he works his magic with simple cardboard boxes for example to show the (non-) correlation between religion and childbirth-growth, and in what way the factor of income comes into the equation. If that is not ‘3D’, what could be?

Have a look and enjoy!

Roger McNamee

Roger McNamee erläutert, wie man an Hand seiner sechs Hypothesen das Internet retten kann. Er erklärt zum Beispiel, wieso das ‘Web’ und Apple Feinde sind und dass das Soziale auf dem Netz keine Platform ist, sondern ein Charakteristikum.

http://www.ted.com/talks/roger_mcnamee_six_ways_to_save_the_internet.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interessant ist dieses Video für mich, weil McNamee die Grundstrukturen des Internet in Frage stellt und ich mich mit seinen Lösungsansätzen auseinandersetzen kann.

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin, Doktor in ‘Animal Science’ und Professorin an der Colorado State University, sprach 2010 in einem TED-Gespräch darüber, wie verschieden Menschen die Welt wahrnemen und wie bereichernd diese Unterschiede sein können. Sie nimmt sich selbst dabei als Vorbild und schildert, wie ihre Autismusspektrumsstörung sie die Welt anders sehen lässt.

http://www.ted.com/talks/temple_grandin_the_world_needs_all_kinds_of_minds.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Im Bezug zu meiner Arbeit wirft dieses Video folgende Fragen auf: Was für verschiedene Wahrnehmungen gibt es? Auf was beziehen sie sich?

Welche Anforderungen stellen diese verschiedenen Wahrnehmungen an das Internet? Welche Lücken gibt es aktuell?