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Is Ice Cream Strawberry?

Paul BradshawCity University, 3 March 2011

This lecture is about technology

peopleinstitutions

culture

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Don’t believe the hype.

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The legacy of Leibniz and Lovelace

(Digitisation and Convergence)

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‘Convergence’

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Cars, roads

and picnics(Getting Things Done)

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Each weekday, my computer program goes to the police

department’s website and gathers all crimes

reported in Chicago.- Adrian Holovaty, Everyblock

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Disintermediated,disagreggated,

modularised.

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The production line has been replaced by

a network.

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Is Ice Cream Strawberry?

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It is frightful that someone who is no one can set any error

into circulation with the aid of this dreadful disproportioned

means of communication.- Soren Kierkegaard

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TV newspeople have the intellectual depth of hamsters. TV news can only present the

bare bones of a story.- Dave Barry

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“Human capital”

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Journalism’s conflicted future

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Deliberative democracy

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Liberal democracy

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Participatory democracy

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Culture shift

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Corporatisation of the public sphere

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Net neutrality

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(Those two futures)

EVERYTHING I’ve just said

in SEVEN easy-to-remember

SOUNDBITES

Stop trying to recreate the

closed market1

See users as an asset, not a cost2

Get over yourself3

Make power accountable4

Hold power to account5

Protect the public sphere6

Stop confusing ice cream

with the flavour7

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Thank you.

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