Unlike Us Reader. Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives

Lovink, GeertRasch, Miriam2023-02-172023-02-172013978-90-818575-2-9https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/unlike-us-reader-social-media-monopolies-and-their-alternatives/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20463The Unlike Us Reader offers a critical examination of social media, bringing together theoretical essays, personal discussions, and artistic manifestos. How can we understand the social media we use everyday, or consciously choose not to use? We know very well that monopolies control social media, but what are the alternatives? While Facebook continues to increase its user population and combines loose privacy restrictions with control over data, many researchers, programmers, and activists turn towards designing a decentralized future. Through understanding the big networks from within, be it by philosophy or art, new perspectives emerge. Unlike Us is a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists, and programmers, with the aim to combine a critique of the dominant social media platforms with work on ‘alternatives in social media’, through workshops, conferences, online dialogues, and publications. Everyone is invited to be a part of the public discussion on how we want to shape the network architectures and the future of social networks we are using so intensely.<li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=12'>Geert Lovink: A World Beyond Facebook: Introduction to the Unlike Us Reader</a></li> </ul> <h4>THEORY OF SOCIAL MEDIA</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=19'>Bernard Stiegler: The Most Precious Good in the Era of Social Technologies</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=34'>David M. Berry: Against Remediation</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=53'>Ganaele Langlois: Social Media, or Towards a Political Economy of Psychic Life</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=64'>Nathan Jurgenson and PJ Rey: The Fan Dance: How Privacy Thrives in an Age of Hyper-Publicity</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=79'>Martin Warnke: Databases as Citadels in the Web 2.0 </a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=92'>Andrea Miconi: Under the Skin of the Networks: How Concentration Affects Social Practices in Web 2.0 Environments</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=106'>Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin: Collective Individuation: The Future of the Social Web</a></li> </ul> <h4>CRITICAL PLATFORM ANALYSIS</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=120'>Korinna Patelis: Political Economy and Monopoly Abstractions: What Social Media Demand</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=130'>Jenny Kennedy: Rhetorics of Sharing: Data, Imagination, and Desire</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=140'>Mercedes Bunz: As You Like It: Critique in the Era of an Affirmative Discourse</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=149'>Caroline Bassett: Silence, Delirium, Lies?</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=162'>Ippolita and Tiziana Mancinelli: The Facebook Aquarium: Freedom in a Profile</a></li> </ul> <h4>PLATFORM CASE STUDIES</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=169'>Mariann Hardey and David Beer: Talking About Escape</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=183'>D.E. Wittkower: Boredom on Facebook</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=192'>Leighton Evans: How to Build a Map for Nothing: Immaterial Labor and Location-Based Social Networking</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=203'>Andrew McNicol: None of Your Business? Analyzing the Legitimacy and Effects of Gendering Social Spaces Through System Design</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=223'>Robert W. Gehl: ‘Why I Left Facebook’: Stubbornly Refusing to not Exist even After Opting out of Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Graph</a></li> </ul> <h4>ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=242'>Simona Lodi: Illegal Art and Other Stories About Social Media</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=257'>Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio: Face-to-Facebook, Smiling in the Eternal Party</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=262'>Louis Doulas and Wyatt Niehaus: On Pleaselike.com and Facebook Bliss</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=267'>Brad Troemel: Art After Social Media as a Rejection of Free Market Conventions</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=272'>Tatiana Bazzichelli: Disruptive Business as Artistic Intervention</a></li> </ul> <h4>ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL MEDIA USES</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=277'>Marc Stumpel: Facebook Resistance: Augmented Freedom</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=292'>Pavlos Hatzopoulos and Nelli Kambouri: The Tactics of Occupation: Becoming Cockroach</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=299'>Tiziana Terranova and Joan Donovan: Occupy Social Networks: The Paradoxes of Using Corporate Social Media in Networked Movements</a></li> </ul> <h4> ALTERNATIVES</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=315'>Lonneke van der Velden: Meeting the Alternatives: Notes About Making Profiles and Joining Hackers</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=326'>Sebastian Sevignani: Facebook vs. Diaspora: A Critical Study</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=341'>Florencio Cabello, Marta G. Franco and Alexandra Haché: Towards a Free Federated Social Web: Lorea Takes the Networks!</a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20463/INC-Reader_8_Lovink-Rasch_2013_Unlike-Us-Reader_.pdf#page=350'>Solon Barocas, Seda Gürses, Arvind Narayanan and Vincent Toubiana: Unlikely Outcomes? A Distributed Discussion on the Prospects and Promise of Decentralized Personal Data Architectures </a></li>engSocial MediaCriticismFacebookNetworks300Unlike Us Reader. Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives10.25969/mediarep/19288