THE SOCIAL GRAPH IS ABOUT CONNECTIONS

THE SOCIAL GRAPH IS ABOUT CONNECTIONS This data set shows how you connect to other people and how they are connected to one another. It also reveals the nature and emotional relevance of those connections.

Big Data Analytics

Commercial companies can use this type of Big Data Analytics to dynamically customize the ads you see on your Facebook page (or in fact anywhere) based on your personality traits.

Data visualisation
This is what a new emerging paradigm in investigative journalism demands. Data journalism, a recently popular label, describes a modern approach to storytelling that makes use of the overwhelming abundance of sources of publicly accessible, authoritative data, together with compelling new tools and techniques for data visualisation and analytics."

The Future Of Technology Isnt Mobile, Its Contextual

NEXT UP: MACHINES THAT UNDERSTAND YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU CARE ABOUT, ANTICIPATE YOUR BEHAVIOR AND EMOTIONS, ABSORB YOUR SOCIAL GRAPH, INTERPRET YOUR INTENTIONS, AND MAKE LIFE, UM, "EASIER."

Surveillance: A Threat to Democracy

The surreptitious collection of metadata every bit of information about every phone call except the word-by-word content of conversations fundamentally alters the relationship between individuals and their government.

Aaron Swartz death

"Aarons death is not simply a personal tragedy," they wrote. "It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorneys office and at MIT contributed to his death." Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/statementfamily-aaron-swartz-2013-1#ixzz2WHP9MOCd

Georg Simmel The Philosophy of Money (1907)

"the vitality of real individuals, in their sensitivities and attractions, in the fullness of their impulses and convictions...is but a symbol of life, as it shows itself in the flow of a lightly amusing play,"[

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ZLATO NOVAC BITKOIN

Stockhausen on September 11
There are people who are so concentrated on this single performance, and then five thousand people are driven to Resurrection. In one moment. I couldn't do that. Compared to that, we are nothing, as composers. [...] It is a crime, you know of course, because the people did not agree to it. They did not come to the "concert". That is obvious. And nobody had told them: "You could be killed in the process." (Stockhausen 2002, 7677.)

PRISM US Gov @PRISM_NSA13 Jun

LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, AT LEAST SOMEONE'S LISTENING TO YOU.

AMERICA 2049
America 2049 is a Facebook game, reaching beyond the world's most popular social network to include other social media, fictional websites, historical artifacts, reallife events, and Hollywood celebrities.

The game drops players into an alternate reality America of the near future, sends them to track a mysterious fugitive, and asks them, in the process of completing their various missions, to make tough and thoughtful decisions about the future of human rights and democracy in this country: from immigrants' and women's rights to marriage equality and freedom of expression. It combines social networking with videos, voice-overs, graphics, historical artifacts, offline events, its own "search engine of the future" (www.zooglio.com) and student curriculum in talk-show format (www.gooddayeverydaynews.com)

Story is more powerful than any weapon.

Reawakening the Grand Narrative

TRANSMEDIA
CONTENT IS KING

KINTECT
Kinect is a motion sensing camera for the Xbox 360. It lets players control and interact with the Xbox 360 through gestures and spoken commands, without needing to use any physical input device

uses narrative devices like character, plot, themes, tone and emotional engagement to create a complete experience.
Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes it own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.