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Subject: nettime-l Digest, Vol 16, Issue 1 - getting rid of MySpace -
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:09:43 -0500 (EST)
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Why I Am Deleting My Myspace Account, and You Should Too (lotu5) 2. tripleC 6 (2): Special issue on "ICTs and society: PhD Students' Transdisciplinary Research Projects" published (Christian Fuchs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:27:20 -0800 From: lotu5 <lotu5@resist.ca> Subject: <nettime> Why I Am Deleting My Myspace Account, and You Should Too To: nettime-l <nettime-l@kein.org> Message-ID: <495BFFD8.10406@resist.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed http://technotrannyslut.com/2008/12/31/why-i-am-deleting-my-myspace-account-and-you-should-too/ Today I am deleting all the content from my Myspace account and leaving only this notice. I've been inspired by the Franklin Street Statement and Identi.ca and I realize and a free/libre/open source internet is still possible, but it will require us to stop supporting corporate websites such as myspace. Here are some good reasons to delete your Myspace page, and support alternatives not run by corporations. 1. I'm tired of being free labor for the Fox corporation. The right wing Fox news corporation owns myspace, and I'm not going to support them any longer by giving them my content, my writing and images and information about who my friends are, for free. I don't support war, the way the Fox corporation has, and I don't want to provide them with more money to spread more pro-war propaganda. According to their license, Myspace has full rights to use my content things like advertisements for Myspace. 2. I actually care about my friends, and don't want to screw them over my making them a "friend" on Myspace. By using myspace, I'm forcing my friends to sign up for a corporate owned, ad ridden, heteronormative web service if they want to stay in touch with me. The way that we don't want to delete our accounts because we want to stay in touch with friends or fans of our bands just shows how dependent we already are on Myspace's corporate controlled environment. We're forced into a compulsory relationship we don't want because we want to "keep in touch" with our friends? 3. I'm tired up updating so many websites because Myspace refuses to be interoperable with other websites. Myspace and sites like it do not allow you to download your data or automatically send it to other social networking sites because they want to force you into the jail of their website. Why? Why don't we demand open social networking standards and the ability to download our own content? 4. I have a good Free/Libre/Open Source alternative, my own blog. You can read about what I'm up to at http://technotrannyslut.com , free of ads for bad movies and music, free of binary gender choices and heteronormative options for your relationships. Sites like Identi.ca provide ethical, non-corporate controlled alternatives to sites like Twitter. You can keep up with my status on Identi.ca, and sign up for your own microblog, here: http://identi.ca/djlotu5 Help create a well known list of alternatives like Identi.ca/Twitter , Opensim/Secondlife, if you now of any, by posting a comment here: http://technotrannyslut.com/2008/12/31/why-i-am-deleting-my-myspace-account-and-you-should-too/ Actually, even better than deleting your account, just delete all the content and post a notice like this one. This is just the beginning, I'm planning on getting off of Facebook and other web services as well, and I hope you do too. We can have an internet that is Free/Libre/Open Source, but only if we stop supporting the corporate, locked down options we've been using all of these years. As these services become more a part of our lives and get into our phones and our everyday communications, it is critical that we fight for our freedom. The Free/Libre/Open Source movement needs to expand from just writing software, into creating networks of servers and services, like Indymedia has done for so many years. Software alone is not enough in a networked service ecology, where servers, cables, wireless networks, infrastructure that we all control is essential if we want freedom. I hope to see you back on the Free/Libre/Open Source internet. Bye. -- gpg: 0x5B77079C // encrypted email preferred gaim/skype: djlotu5 // off the record messaging preferred blog: http://bang.calit2.net/tts ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:36:50 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at> Subject: <nettime> tripleC 6 (2): Special issue on "ICTs and society: PhD Students' Transdisciplinary Research Projects" published To: nettime-l@kein.org Message-ID: <495B9192.1010205@sbg.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed please distribute this announcement tripleC 6 (2): Special issue on "ICTs and society: PhD Students' Transdisciplinary Research Projects" published http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current This special issue, edited by Christian Fuchs, documents selected papers that were presented at the doctoral students conference "ICTs and society" that took place at the University of Salzburg on June 20-21, 2008 (see http://www.icts.sbg.ac.at/content.php?m_id=1012&id=1012&newsdetail=555&ch_id=) tripleC (Cognition, Communication, Co-operation) is an open access journal that focuses on transdisciplinary research in information science and communication studies. Contents tripleC (Cognition, Communication, Co-operation) -- Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 6 (2): http://triplec.at Christian Fuchs Introduction to the special issue on "ICTs and Society: PhD Students' Transdisciplinary Research Projects" i-viii http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/80/74 Muhammad M. Abdul-Mageed: Online News Sites and Journalism 2.0: Reader Comments on Al Jazeera Arabic 59-76 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/78 Robert M. Bichler: The dawn of the information age in least developed countries (LDCs): lessons learned from four case studies 77-87 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/79 Randall B. Kemp Public participatory GIS in community-based disaster risk reduction 88-104 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/81 Alice Mattoni ICTs in national and transnational mobilizations 105-124 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/82 Pedro Pereira Neto Internet-driven changes in environmental NGO action 125-133 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/83 Alberto Pepe Socio-epistemic analysis of scientific knowledge production in little science research 134-145 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/84 Andra? Petrovc(ic( Reconfiguring socialities: The personal networks of ICT users and Social Cohesion 146-166 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/85