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<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>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Erik Jentges <<a href="mailto:e.jentges@ipmz.uzh.ch">e.jentges@ipmz.uzh.ch</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:16:43 +0200<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span><<a href="mailto:discussion@lists.icts-and-society.net">discussion@lists.icts-and-society.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[ICTs-and-Society] facebook and you<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thanks to all for the inspiring discussions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words (some might know this):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Pig 1 : Isn’t it great ? We have to pay nothing for the barn.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Pig 2 : Yeah! and even the food is free.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Facebook and You<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer. You’re the product being sold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/facebook-you-customer-product-pigs.html/facebook-and-you-pigs"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="450" height="360" id="Grafik_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD18D6.CA1F9DB0" alt="Beschreibung: Facebook and You Pigs"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">All the best at the conference, greetings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Erik <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt">Dr. phil. Erik Jentges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt">IPMZ - Institut für Publizistikwissenschaft und Medienforschung<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt">Universität Zürich<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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