1. Regulatory theory in
social media society
Mathias Klang @klang67

2. The augmented
human

3. Egyptian wood & leather prosthetic toe (ca
1069 to 664 B.C)

4. Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

5. Generation zero

6. hollerith

7. Birth of
computing 1940s

8. memex
Vannevar Bush; As We May Think; Atlantic Monthly; July 1945

9. Generation 3 (1964-72)

10. Arpanet: connections with
redundancy (1969-1990)

11. Bulletin board system (late 1970s)

12. Ideology

13. Starting this Thanksgiving I
am going to write a
complete Unix-compatible
software system called
GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix),
GNU Project, posted by
and give it away free to
Richard Stallman on everyone who can use it.
September 27, 1983.

14. On the one hand information
wants to be expensive,
because it's so valuable… On
the other hand, information
wants to be free, because the
cost of getting it out is getting
lower and lower all the time.
Stewart Brand (1984)

15. Information Wants To Be
Free. Information also
wants to be
expensive. ...That tension
Steward Brand (1985) will not go away

16. The Well: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
(1985)
stewart Brand & Larry Brilliant

17. Freedom 0: The freedom
to run the program for any
purpose.
Freedom 1: To study &
change the program
Freedom 2: To redistribute
copies
Freedom 3: Improve &
publically release the
program
Stallman’s Free
software definition
(1986)

18. I believe that all generally useful information should
be free. By 'free' I am not referring to price, but
rather to the freedom to copy the information and
to adapt it to one's own uses... When information is
generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity
wealthier no matter who is distributing and no
matter who is receiving.
Stallman (1990)

19. World wide web
(an open standard)
Hypertext in the wild - Tim Berners-Lee (1990/91)

20. Mosaic web browser (1993)

21. The Net interprets censorship as
damage and routes around it.
John Gilmore (December 1993 quoted in TIME Magazine)

22. Johnson & Post (1996)
Law and Borders - The
Rise of Law in
Cyberspace
Julian Dibbell (1993) A
Rape in Cyberspace
Law in a
database

23. Governments of the Industrial
World, you weary giants of flesh
and steel, I come from Cyberspace,
the new home of Mind. On behalf
of the future, I ask you of the past
to leave us alone. You are not
welcome among us. You have no
sovereignty where we gather.
John Perry Barlow (1996) A Declaration of the
Independence of Cyberspace

24. Killer apps 1995: Browser wars

25. Dot-com bubble
(1995-2000)

26. The rise and fall of edemocracy
(1995-2000)

27. Code and other laws of cyberspace
Lawrence Lessig (1999)

28. Murray & Scott (2001) Modalities of Regulation

29. Walls & Desire paths

30. Whom does it serve?
The law

31. What coders know that lawyers don’t like to
think about?

33. Desire path

35. Hacking reality

36. Information wants to be free – the radical
approach

37. Napster 1999 (sued 2000)

38. Digitalization 
Internet 
WWW 
Fixed cost connections 
Storage Costs 
web2.0 
Devices 
Social Media 

39. 91 % Access to the Internet at home
83 % Access to broadband at home
7% Never used a computer
Source: Sweden Statistics 2011 (*Individuals aged 16-74)

40. From User
generated
content to
Social Media to
user
entertainment

41. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

42. 2006

43. "Out of this anarchy…
what was governing
the infinite monkeys
now inputting away on
the Internet was the
law of digital
Darwinism, the survival
of the loudest and most
opinionated.”
Andrew Keen: Cult of the amateur
(2007)

44. Normalizing the abnormal

47. Pessimist
talk

52. This is not a phone

53. Always online

54. The end of boredom

55. Monotask queuing

56. Not knowing

57. Waiting by THE phone

58. Remember this?

59. Social networks

60. Dunbar’s 150

61. Stimuli or relations

62. "If we don't teach our children to be alone all they
will be is lonely" Sherry Turkle

63. Private or Personal

64. “My fear is that these
technologies are
infantilising the brain into
the state of small children
who are attracted by
buzzing noises and bright
lights, who have a small
attention span and who
live for the moment.”
Prof. Susan Greenfield

65. Performance lifestyle

66. My awesome coffee

67. Truman show delusion

68. What does it
all mean?

69. Old stupidity or
new intelligence?

70. Technology changes us
& we change it

71. Who is in control?

72. XKCD
Microsoft
(Oct 2012)

73. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

74. What do the people who control what
we can do, think?

75. What will they let us think?

76. A Squirrel Dying In
Your Front Yard May
Be More Relevant To
Your Interests Right
Now Than People
Dying In Africa
Mark Zuckerberg

77. if you're not
paying for
something,
you're not the
customer;
you're the
product being
sold

78. The weakest link

79. Performance
goes bad…

80. Channels

81. Medical news

83. Swedish employment law

84. The blogging policeman

85. The sexy Headmaster

86. RTFM –
read the license.

87. Law (it’s still there).

88. Policies and guidelines

90. Support norms: Be that guy!

91. THANKS!

92. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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