[ICTs-and-Society] facebook and you

[Rodrigo Saturnino]

Do you have your own cage there?

:)



2012/4/12 Sean Cubitt <sean.cubitt at unimelb.edu.au>

>  It is real life that is the zoo – Facebook is the myth that makes us
> believe we are only zoo animals when we choose to be
>
>
>   From: Erik Jentges <e.jentges at ipmz.uzh.ch>
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:16:43 +0200
> To: <discussion at lists.icts-and-society.net>
> Subject: [ICTs-and-Society] facebook and you
>
>   Thanks to all for the inspiring discussions. ****
>
> Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words (some might know this):
> ****
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> Pig 1 : Isn’t it great ? We have to pay nothing for the barn.****
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> Pig 2 : Yeah! and even the food is free.****
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> ****
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> Facebook and You****
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> If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer. You’re the product
> being sold.****
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> [image: Beschreibung: Facebook and You Pigs]<http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/facebook-you-customer-product-pigs.html/facebook-and-you-pigs>
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> After thinking a bit about this cartoon and the analogy drawn to facebook,
> some unexplainable sociological intuition rather gives me a hunch that
> users are not so much the product being sold (to whom?) but that facebook
> is some sort of a zoo, where all visitors are at the same time the animals
> on display. Those invited can create their own cages, curating and
> narrating their identities. This still leaves open who is the manager of
> the zoo (Zuckerberg and his corporation?) and if the zoo has a viable long
> term strategy. That remains to be seen.****
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> All the best at the conference, greetings,****
>
> Erik ****
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Rodrigo Saturnino
PhD Student in Sociology
(Social Sciences Institute ICS-UL)
nossoopiodecadadia.wordpress.com
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