Comments on: Is MySpace Exploiting You? http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/04/is_myspace_expl.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:22:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: James Grimmelmann http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/04/is_myspace_expl.html/comment-page-1#comment-54216 James Grimmelmann Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:26:30 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/04/is-myspace-exploiting-you.html#comment-54216 Can you articulate more precisely what you mean by "governance?" What kinds of decisions are you thinking of? Myspace, considered as a piece of social software, throws a huge amount of social coordination and discipline functions onto its users. They take advantage of its affordances to develop all sorts of strange and idiosyncratic forms of local order and group norms, and they punish each other socially in some very disturbing ways. Are you thinking more about the design of the software? The use by site owners of software power against users? Decisions about the intellectual property and information goods placed online on these sites? All of these? Or something else entirely? Can you articulate more precisely what you mean by “governance?” What kinds of decisions are you thinking of? Myspace, considered as a piece of social software, throws a huge amount of social coordination and discipline functions onto its users. They take advantage of its affordances to develop all sorts of strange and idiosyncratic forms of local order and group norms, and they punish each other socially in some very disturbing ways. Are you thinking more about the design of the software? The use by site owners of software power against users? Decisions about the intellectual property and information goods placed online on these sites? All of these? Or something else entirely?

]]> By: Sigivald http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/04/is_myspace_expl.html/comment-page-1#comment-54215 Sigivald Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:07:19 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/04/is-myspace-exploiting-you.html#comment-54215 What transparency is needed why? I don't even see any exploitation. The labor people put into their MySpace pages doesn't get them <i>money</i>? Well, Christ. They're not doing it <i>for money</i>. They're doing it to <i>communicate with their friends</i> (or other people). (And "Web 2.0"? A meaningless buzzword, and anyone who's a "Web 2.0 proponent" is, in my experience, a clueless dreamer, and probably a Socialist. I'm only half joking about that, by the way. Not at all about the buzzword part, mind you.) What transparency is needed why?

I don’t even see any exploitation. The labor people put into their MySpace pages doesn’t get them money?

Well, Christ. They’re not doing it for money.

They’re doing it to communicate with their friends (or other people).

(And “Web 2.0″? A meaningless buzzword, and anyone who’s a “Web 2.0 proponent” is, in my experience, a clueless dreamer, and probably a Socialist.

I’m only half joking about that, by the way. Not at all about the buzzword part, mind you.)

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