Digital Tailspin
Digital Tailspin
Ten Rules for the Internet After Snowden
by Michael Seemann

Author(s)
Michael Seemann
Publication
Amsterdam : Institute Of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, 2015
Scope
64 Pages, 23 cm.
ISBN
9789082234589

Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital world. We experience a digital tailspin, or as Michael Seemann calls it in this essay: a loss of control or Kontrollverlust. Data we never knew existed is finding paths that were not intended and reveals information that we would never have thought of on our own. But that doesn’t mean we are lost. A new game emerges, where a different set of rules applies. To take part, we need to embrace a new way of thinking and a radical new ethics – we need to search for freedom in completely different places.


Keywords
future scenario's , internet , new media , ethics
Location
Cabinet 11 - 4: Digitale Media & Internet
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