hossein derakhshan
[image from Arash Ashoorinia photo]
intro’d some time ago (took notes on him somewhere.. will add here if i ever find it).. adding page this day..
Hossein Derakhshan (@h0d3r) tweeted at 4:02 AM – 12 Mar 2019 :
(1/4)The Web is dead already, because mobile phones and social media killed hyperlinks. Watch this mini-doc which I made in Tehran after my freedom, based on this essay:
https://t.co/Gc3kr0U7G0
#Web30 https://t.co/HCe2PLb2Ly (http://twitter.com/h0d3r/status/1105408615568064512?s=17)Hossein Derakhshan (@h0d3r) tweeted at 4:09 AM – 12 Mar 2019 :
Watch it on YouTube in one 8-minutes piece:
https://t.co/at6JW3Elz7 (http://twitter.com/h0d3r/status/1105410430699274241?s=17)
video published jun 2016:
5 min – predictability means control
webs gone from library/academic to entertainment
what we need more: augmenting interconnectedness..
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from 2015 – Iran’s blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
(1/4)The Web is dead already, because mobile phones and social media killed hyperlinks. Watch this mini-doc which I made in Tehran after my freedom, based on this essay:
#Web30 https://t.co/HCe2PLb2Ly
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/h0d3r/status/1105408615568064512
from article:
Hossein Derakhshan was imprisoned by the regime for his blogging. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a stream of pointless social trivia
We seem to have gone from a non-linear mode of communication – nodes and networks and links – toward one that is linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking.
I remain inside Facebook, and it continues to broadcast what I might like. This is not the web I knew when I went to jail. This is not the future of the web. This future is television.
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on data ness
Hossein Derakhshan (@h0d3r) tweeted at 5:57 AM – 1 Sep 2019 :
Datafication means predictablity, predictability means control. (http://twitter.com/h0d3r/status/1168130846597033984?s=17)Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) tweeted at 6:00 AM – 1 Sep 2019 :
@h0d3r Data also means information and knowledge, enabling decision making based on fact over mere emotion, habit, bias. Making “data” a scare word risks making knowledge forbidden fruit to be outlawed. (http://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/1168131423280218112?s=17)Hossein Derakhshan (@h0d3r) tweeted at 6:03 AM – 1 Sep 2019 :
@jeffjarvis Yes, that’s why I used ‘datafication’. (http://twitter.com/h0d3r/status/1168132244445237249?s=17)
perhaps it’s been our focus on inhumane data (ie: data on whales in sea world) that has got us in this predictability-as-control fueled feedback loop
let’s try self-talk as data
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find/follow Hossein:
Media researcher at
@medialab, ex Harvard@Shorensteinctr. Spent 6 yrs in Iran prison. Wrote ‘Web We Have to Save’: http://bit.ly/1CQYaYU email:hoder@hoder.com
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be you. 