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Top : Jaron Lanier - Special Merit: Jaron Lanier deserves special merit for addressing the dark side of Web 2.0 and social media in his book You Are Not A Gadget. In recognition of his contributions here's a collection of information about him and his work. If you are involved in Social Media you are ignorant if you haven't read this.
Articles:Toward a Human-Centric Internet: Jessamyn West Interviews Jaron Lanier - by Jessamyn WestLanier's new book is a critical response to Web 2.0 and "hive mind" thinking. I've had Lanier on my radar since he wrote about virtual reality in the 1980s, but he made a splash in library circles with his 2006 essay "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism," a cautionary tale about the problems inherent in the much-lauded wisdom of crowds concept. This new book is an expansion of those ideas and others. I asked him about some of the more book- and library-oriented ones. (Added: 12-Dec-2010 Hits: 94 ) A Q&A with Author Jaron Lanier - by na A Q&A with Author Jaron Lanier From an Amazon.com interview for his book “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto” (Added: 30-Dec-2010 Hits: 122 ) The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks - by Jaron Lanier The degree of sympathy in tech circles for both Wikileaks and Anonymous has surprised me. The most common take seems to be that the world needs cyber-pranksters to keep old-school centers of power, like governments and big companies, in check. Cyber-activists are perceived to be the underdogs, flawed and annoying, perhaps, but standing up to overbearing power. It doesn't seem so to me. I actually take seriously the idea that the Internet can make non-traditional techie actors powerful.1 Therefore, I am less sympathetic to hackers when they use their newfound power arrogantly and non-constructively. This is an interesting difference in perception. How can you tell when you are the underdog versus when you are powerful? When you get that perception wrong, you can behave quite badly quite easily (Added: 7-Jan-2011 Hits: 93 ) Jaron Lanier Audio Interview: The Web's Digital Maoism - by Tom Ashbrook Jaron Lanier was there in the morning of the digital age, when everything was thrilling and new. He was a thinker and an artist and a programmer turned on by the Internet revolution. Now, he's not so sure. What looked liberating may be enslaving us, he says, to a kind of aggregated, collectivist "hive mind" online. "Digital Maoism," he's called it, making digital peasants out of Googlers and Facebookers. Stealing individuality. Reducing us to mush. Ouch! This hour, On Point: a warning on the web. (Added: 12-Dec-2010 Hits: 89 ) Book Review: You Are Not a Gadget -- Engadget - by Laura June ervent and affectionate clinging to several physical objects that are quickly becoming cultural artifacts: the ink pen, the paper book, and the vinyl record -- but those items haven't been the only 'evidence' my accusers have historically cited. In addition to that physical evidence, there has always been my suspicion that some of the things I valued in life -- listening to a whole album, reading an entire novel in one sitting before grabbing another off the shelf -- were also going the way of Betamax, and being replaced by short attention-spanned, sound-bited fragments of conversation that didn't convey knowledge or ideas in nearly the same way. (Added: 8-Mar-2011 Hits: 79 ) The Constructive Curmudgeon: Interview with Jaron Lanier - by DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS Q and A interview with Jaron Lanier, autho or You Are Not a Gadget (Added: 12-Dec-2010 Hits: 116 ) Jaron Lanier: 'Web 2.0 is utterly pathetic' - Features, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent - by Clint Witchall Quote from Lanier: "Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them," says Lanier, "but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. Embedded in the Web 2.0 idea is a pessimism that people really could live off their brains. That's why it's OK for people to give their stuff away free because so few would have anything to offer that they'd have to have some other way to support themselves." (Added: 12-Dec-2010 Hits: 103 ) At SXSWi: Jaron Lanier goes against the flow | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times - by Peter Miller Lanier is all about shrinking the distance between people and challenging expectations. As an early adopter and booster of the Internet, it's easy to assume that SXSWi is his natural environment. Yet he looks and feels slightly out of place in its triumphant, depersonalized atmosphere. His new book, "You Are Not a Gadget," is a stern critique of the world he and his colleagues helped bring into existence. He offers up something not typically discussed at the Austin festival -- the darker side of Web 2.0. (Added: 7-Sep-2010 Hits: 243 )
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