Do you have your own cage there?<div> </div><div>:)</div><div> </div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">2012/4/12 Sean Cubitt <<a href="mailto:sean.cubitt@unimelb.edu.au">sean.cubitt@unimelb.edu.au</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"> <div>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</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div style="border-right:medium none;padding-right:0in;padding-left:0in;padding-top:3pt;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;border-bottom:medium none;font-family:Calibri;border-top:#b5c4df 1pt solid;padding-bottom:0in;border-left:medium none"> From: Erik Jentges <<a href="mailto:e.jentges@ipmz.uzh.ch" target="_blank">e.jentges@ipmz.uzh.ch</a>> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:16:43 +0200 To: <<a href="mailto:discussion@lists.icts-and-society.net" target="_blank">discussion@lists.icts-and-society.net</a>> Subject: [ICTs-and-Society] facebook and you </div><div><div class="h5"> <div> </div> <div> <div lang="DE-CH" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div> Thanks to all for the inspiring discussions. Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words (some might know this): Pig 1 : Isn’t it great ? We have to pay nothing for the barn. Pig 2 : Yeah! and even the food is free. Facebook and You If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer. You’re the product being sold. <a href="http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/facebook-you-customer-product-pigs.html/facebook-and-you-pigs" target="_blank"><img border="0" width="450" height="360" alt="Beschreibung: Facebook and You Pigs"></a> 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. All the best at the conference, greetings, Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. phil. Erik Jentges IPMZ - Institut für Publizistikwissenschaft und Medienforschung Universität Zürich Andreasstrasse 15 CH-8050 Zürich Tel. <a href="tel:%2B41%20%280%2944%20634%2046%2070" value="+41446344670" target="_blank">+41 (0)44 634 46 70</a> Fax <a href="tel:%2B41%20%280%2944%20634%2049%2034" value="+41446344934" target="_blank">+41 (0)44 634 49 34</a> <a href="mailto:e.jentges@ipmz.uzh.ch" target="_blank">e.jentges@ipmz.uzh.ch</a> <a href="http://www.ipmz.unizh.ch/" target="_blank">www.ipmz.uzh.ch</a> </div> </div> </div></div></div> _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list <a href="mailto:Discussion@lists.icts-and-society.net" target="_blank"> Discussion@lists.icts-and-society.net</a> <a href="http://lists.icts-and-society.net/listinfo.cgi/discussion-icts-and-society.net" target="_blank"> http://lists.icts-and-society.net/listinfo.cgi/discussion-icts-and-society.net</a> </div> _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list <a href="mailto:Discussion@lists.icts-and-society.net">Discussion@lists.icts-and-society.net</a> <a href="http://lists.icts-and-society.net/listinfo.cgi/discussion-icts-and-society.net" target="_blank">http://lists.icts-and-society.net/listinfo.cgi/discussion-icts-and-society.net</a> </blockquote></div> <div> </div>-- Rodrigo Saturnino PhD Student in Sociology (Social Sciences Institute ICS-UL) <a href="http://nossoopiodecadadia.wordpress.com">nossoopiodecadadia.wordpress.com</a> </div>