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!
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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