NYC Book Launch / Upgrade NY @Eyebeam / March 4th 2010

A free collaborative book about the future of free collaboration @ Transmediale 2010

Collaborative Futures

Introduction

Transmediale 2010: Futurity Now!

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The authors

✤ Adam Hyde - Floss Manuals, artist

✤ Mike Linksvayer - VP Creative Commons

✤ Marta Peirano - Copyfight, journalist

✤ Alan Toner - Steal This Film, researcher

✤ Michael Mandiberg - Eyebeam, artist

✤ Mushon Zer-Aviv - Eyebeam, designer

✤ Aleksander Erkalovic (programmer) - Floss Manuals

What Are Book Sprints?

...but this book is not procedural

"Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act."

Tom Clancy

How This Book Is Written

5 Samples

Sample 1:Open Relationships

Sample 1:Open Relationships

✤ Like romantic relationships, open collaborations are based on mutual trust

Sample 1:Open Relationships

✤ Like romantic relationships, open collaborations are based on mutual trust

✤ In an open relationship a different social pact governs the relationship.

Sample 1:Open Relationships

✤ Like romantic relationships, open collaborations are based on mutual trust

✤ In an open relationship a different social pact governs the relationship.

✤ Make sure you cover the basics: coordination, transparency, attribution, autonomy, generosity, respect and freedom of movement.

Sample 2: Anonymous /Problematizing Attribution

Sample 3:Sharing is the First Step

Sample 3:Sharing is the First Step

✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration

Sample 3:Sharing is the First Step

✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration

✤ "This is who I am. This is what I did."

Sample 3:Sharing is the First Step

✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration

✤ "This is who I am. This is what I did."

✤ identity + social objects = direct attribution, one to many

Sample 3:Sharing is the First Step

✤ UGC, Social Media - confusion between sharing & collaboration

✤ "This is who I am. This is what I did."

✤ identity + social objects = direct attribution, one to many

✤ social objects + identities = indirect attribution, many to many

Sample 3:Sharing is the First Step

Sample 3:Sharing is the First Step

✤ Adding a layer of coordination:

Sample 3:Sharing is the First Step

✤ Adding a layer of coordination:

✤ "use the #iranelections hashtag on your tweets"

Sample 3:Sharing is the First Step

✤ Adding a layer of coordination:

✤ "use the #iranelections hashtag on your tweets"

✤ social objects + coordination = new (collaborative) social object

Sample 3:Sharing is the First Step

✤ Adding a layer of coordination:

✤ "use the #iranelections hashtag on your tweets"

✤ social objects + coordination = new (collaborative) social object

✤ “Edits” (Wikis) or “commits” (open source) loose their individual meaning outside the collaborative context

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:

✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social.

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:

✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social.

✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation:

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:

✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social.

✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation:

✤ Wikis and version control systems: contrib+user+time

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:

✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social.

✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation:

✤ Wikis and version control systems: contrib+user+time

✤ “diff”

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Coordinating Mechanisms create Contexts:

✤ coordination & governance mechanisms - both technical & social.

✤ Technical Coordination and Mediation:

✤ Wikis and version control systems: contrib+user+time

✤ “diff”

✤ Lower the friction but does not eliminate it

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Social Contracts and Mediation:

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Social Contracts and Mediation:

✤ First Wikipedia edit determines the tone of the article - leadership

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Social Contracts and Mediation:

✤ First Wikipedia edit determines the tone of the article - leadership

✤ Social contract - collaborative goal:to make the article more accurate and factual

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Social Contracts and Mediation:

✤ First Wikipedia edit determines the tone of the article - leadership

✤ Social contract - collaborative goal:to make the article more accurate and factual

✤ “If you're going against what the majority of people perceive to be reality, you're the one who's crazy”http://tiny.booki.cc/?wikiality

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Wikiality:

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Wikiality:

✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked)

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Wikiality:

✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked)

✤ Wikipedia banned stephencolbert - an unverified celebrity name

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Wikiality:

✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked)

✤ Wikipedia banned stephencolbert - an unverified celebrity name

✤ Vandalism?

Sample 4:Coordination & Contexts

✤ Wikiality:

✤ “African Elephant” was protected (locked)

✤ Wikipedia banned stephencolbert - an unverified celebrity name

✤ Vandalism?

✤ Or just a collaboration under a different social contract?

Sample 5:On Intentional collaboration

Sample 5:On Intentional collaboration

✤ www.thru-you.com

Sample 5:On Intentional collaboration

✤ www.thru-you.com

✤ Is intention essential to collaboration?

Sample 5:On Intentional collaboration

✤ www.thru-you.com

✤ Is intention essential to collaboration?

✤ What about Google Pagerank algorithm?

Sample 5:On Intentional collaboration

✤ www.thru-you.com

✤ Is intention essential to collaboration?

✤ What about Google Pagerank algorithm?

✤ Intention of action vs. intention of context

Sample 5:On Intentional collaboration

✤ www.thru-you.com

✤ Is intention essential to collaboration?

✤ What about Google Pagerank algorithm?

✤ Intention of action vs. intention of context

✤ Shared goals

Sample 6:Collaborationism

Sample 6:Collaborationism

✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”

Sample 6:Collaborationism

✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”

✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14)

Sample 6:Collaborationism

✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”

✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14)

✤ Context and conflict

Sample 6:Collaborationism

✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”

✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14)

✤ Context and conflict

✤ The nonhuman quality of networks (The Exploit - Galloway/Thacker)

Sample 6:Collaborationism

✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”

✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14)

✤ Context and conflict

✤ The nonhuman quality of networks (The Exploit - Galloway/Thacker)

✤ Tension between individual identities and group identities

Sample 6:Collaborationism

✤ Collaboration with “the enemy”

✤ Galit Eilat at Dictionary of War / Novi Sad (01:40-02:14)

✤ Context and conflict

✤ The nonhuman quality of networks (The Exploit - Galloway/Thacker)

✤ Tension between individual identities and group identities

✤ ‘Better a complex identity than an identity complex’ (The Digital Given - Ippolito/Lovink/Rossiter)

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End

✤ ...jump back to the world of flesh meetings, slow readings and the realities of unpokeability by committing ritual suicide. Online:

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End

✤ ...jump back to the world of flesh meetings, slow readings and the realities of unpokeability by committing ritual suicide. Online:

✤ "As the Seppuku restores samurai's honor as a warrior, in the same way, Seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body...”Seppukoo.com

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End

✤ ...jump back to the world of flesh meetings, slow readings and the realities of unpokeability by committing ritual suicide. Online:

✤ "As the Seppuku restores samurai's honor as a warrior, in the same way, Seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body...”Seppukoo.com

✤ "This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your WebWeb 2.0 Suicide Machine

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End✤ Ceased and Deceased

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End✤ Ceased and Deceased

✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.”

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End✤ Ceased and Deceased

✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.”

✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users?

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End✤ Ceased and Deceased

✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.”

✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users?

✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can the same be said about our owned life?

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End✤ Ceased and Deceased

✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.”

✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users?

✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can the same be said about our owned life?

✤ “A life owned by a dot.com company is not worth living...”

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End✤ Ceased and Deceased

✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.”

✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users?

✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can the same be said about our owned life?

✤ “A life owned by a dot.com company is not worth living...”

✤ “The ritual itself is essential, as it stands as a gesture of independence from the platform, the community and the commercial interests...”

Sample 6:Death Is Not The End✤ Ceased and Deceased

✤ “...asking other users to share their login data, entering other people's accounts, collecting other user's information, spamming and using Facebook's Intellectual Property without permission.”

✤ Who is the offender? The sites or the users?

✤ “The right to life is an inalienable right inherent in us by virtue of our existence...” Can the same be said about our owned life?

✤ “A life owned by a dot.com company is not worth living...”

✤ “The ritual itself is essential, as it stands as a gesture of independence from the platform, the community and the commercial interests...”

✤ Assisted suicide & the right to leave.

Epilogue

Knock Knock

Knock Knock

✤ The anonymous contributor

Knock Knock

✤ The anonymous contributor

✤ “Where do I sign up?”

Knock Knock

✤ The anonymous contributor

✤ “Where do I sign up?”

✤ We were not in stealth mode, we were online!

Knock Knock

✤ The anonymous contributor

✤ “Where do I sign up?”

✤ We were not in stealth mode, we were online!

✤ No social or technical mechanism for managing external contribution

Are we interested?

Are we interested?

✤ How do we introduce personal accounts?

Are we interested?

✤ How do we introduce personal accounts?

✤ Do we ignore and say “we”?

Are we interested?

✤ How do we introduce personal accounts?

✤ Do we ignore and say “we”?

✤ Do we quote ourselves?

Are we interested?

✤ How do we introduce personal accounts?

✤ Do we ignore and say “we”?

✤ Do we quote ourselves?

✤ Can we quote what’s never been written or even said?

Are we interested?

✤ How do we introduce personal accounts?

✤ Do we ignore and say “we”?

✤ Do we quote ourselves?

✤ Can we quote what’s never been written or even said?

✤ Oops... complex identity/identity complex?

Things We Did Not Cover

Crowdsourcing & Mechanical Turk / Internal collaboration in for-profit businesses / Piracy / Relative maintenance efforts of collaborative and free / culture projects / Interns / FLOSS zealotry and License fascism and Free Culture as an atheistic faith / Free Culture posturing, and not walking / the talk / Open Source and design / Scaling collaborations / Failure (it was not an option) / The cost of failure / Tolerance of errors / The pain of confronting ideologies / How to collaborate with people you don't agree with / So much more...

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