"It is hard to tell a really gripping tale of how I wrested a wild-oat seed from its husk, and then another, and then another, and then another, and then another,"

"but how do you get more than one stomachful and one handful home?"

"Maybe. The trouble is, we've all let ourselves become part of the killer story, and so we may get finished along with it."

"A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us."

"If, however, one avoids the linear, progressive, Time's-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic, and redefines technology and science as primarily cultural carrier bag rather than weapon of domination"

Keywords:

'High Technology'
The digitalization as a development built on this idea of 'heroic' stories. How is this new digital age defined/influenced by this idea?

'The Lawgivers'
The lawgivers/ institutions / governments as a way for the hero to control its achievements

Notes from 'The carrier bag theory of fiction - Kimmies class 28-09

Keywords from my articles - Megans class 22-09

1. imbalance
2. Technical standards
3. hyper-capitalist
4. Electoral power
5. Independent supervision
6. democratic accountability
7. voting power of capital
8. civic technology
9. private power in the digital domain.
10. Opt-out.
11. Promise

Made sentence
1. An imbalance in electoral power, democratic accountability & independent supervision by hyper capitalist over technical standards in civic technology.

A design question

During group talks with Senka & Ymar we were talking about what a design question could be and as Senka pointed out, because my subject is quite technical and about legal stuff, the challenge would be how to present the information in an appealing way.
I thought that was an interesting insight:

How to make the topic more appealing?

First concept

--what will happen physically and what digitally?
>>Interactive quiz in the book by using QR codes to redirect to a website. on the website will be the answers and short summaries of the topics which redirect to the full articles to be found in the book.

--What is my collection and why?
>>Still not completely sure.. it exists now from articles about the internet and how it can be extremely socialistic (china) to extremely capitalistic (United States) and some stories inbetween.

--What is my idea of urgency and how it relates to my topic?
>>How the internet is structured is in my eyes very important to know for people in general. We use it every day.

--What is the visual language of my publication?
editorial decisions as for instance expressed in your index or typographic experiments.
>>For now I feel like errors and confirmations as seen in the graphical user interface from computers and smartphones are quite interesting to use in the Quiz.

- why should governments be interested in open-source technology?

- Why do governments have troubling keeping up with digital corporates?

- What is the best balance in regulate/controlling the internet by governments?

- how could a digital minister in the Netherlands work? should we have a ministry of the digital?

- How could democracies look if it embraced technological advances more.

trouble in finding a good story to tell...

‘The Goal is to automate us’

That if we don’t watch out, we lose our democracy, which is based on freewill. How data technology is being used right now missuses our subconsciousness on a level that will affect our democratic values. Technological companies have been able to collect data about us freely and in return they gave us free access to their digital platforms. This scraping of our data has not been properly regulated until now and can/has become very problematic.

Big tech like Google and Facebook have been able to collect almost unlimited behavioral data from half of earth’s population. With this data about our behavior they have been able to analyze what how our mind works, in quite a precise way. They came as far as changing our emotional state.

Teenagers
Adolecence in western society
"Digital Natives"

Why?
Because this group is particularly targeted by this big tech companies.
- To keep their freedom of choice
- Mindfullness
- To activate, activism

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How it is now

How it will be

How it could be

examples of how government falls short

- Open source
- Open government
- Civic technology
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Scenario as portayed by "Age of Surveillance Capitalism"

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Consumer

Company

Government

Idea #1

Introduction:
In the blind men and the elephant they describe how everyone can have a different experience from the same object. This is something very recognisable in internet bubbles, how people can have different experiences on the same platform. But this is also how some articles that are about the internet

1. Because the internet is something so big and uncontrollable
2. because it promises a lot of things, but what it is gonna be is still unsure.

this idea is described in: "'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism"

"Why choose 1495? Because we’re about the same distance into our revolution, the one kicked off by digital technology and networking. And although it’s now gradually dawning on us that this really is a big deal and that epochal social and economic changes are under way, we’re as clueless about where it’s heading and what’s driving it as the citizens of Mainz were in 1495.

That’s not for want of trying, mind. Library shelves groan under the weight of books about what digital technology is doing to us and our world. Lots of scholars are thinking, researching and writing about this stuff. But they’re like the blind men trying to describe the elephant in the old fable: everyone has only a partial view, and nobody has the whole picture"

to create a physical publication that removes all classical ways of navigation

But you can let your self be guided by a digital tool. that will base its guidance accordance the information you have given to him.

like an assistant.

This assistant is a metaphor for the big tech companies that guide is through the unknown

The idea:

STEP 6: IDEA #2

The idea is based around the heat map. which is used to track users mouse movement online

I started sketching for a cover for the physical publication

The idea was to create a physical book with articles index as displayed here
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And having keywords highlighted
when the user would lay its phone near to it with NFC the user would be leaded to the website
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Website
The website would be a dictionary with the keywords al around surveillance capitalism and open governments.

every pixel would be an article and categorised by how dangerous I thought it is.

STEP 7: IDEA #3

The idea now is to have a Dictionairy on Surveillance capitalism and open solutions

You can learn the definitions of the digital surveillance technologies and the future scenario it gives and the another brighter scenario

During the visit I try to track as much as possible and let the visitor "pay" at the end with its own data, which I want to let them be able to print with a receipt printer

STEP 5: RETHINKING THE INDEX

STEP 4: FIRST DRAFT HYBRID PUBLICATION

STEP 3: INDEXING THE INFORMATION

STEP 2: FOR WHO IS THIS VIABLE?

STEP 1: DEFINE THE GENERAL MESSAGE

Notes from feedback rounds

Kimmy 24-Nov.

Try to implement the heat map visual language/concept more into the receipt/physical part.

Try play with the typography, could you let the typography refer to the concept as well?

Make the articles more appealing, instead of just giving them the name. give them a quote or a question or other ways

Give the articles connection to each other, with for example tags.

Try to think a way to lead people to the 'checkout/receipt' page.

Arjen 24-Nov.

You could try pelican, and create the grid structure in there. But I can't really help you with that (talk to Gijs).

It is also possible to create the article grid with hard coding+Java with Iframes loading the textual part.

Try to look into the formatting to create the grid. use standard 'divs' or try the newer notations.

Typography tests

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Prefer this one, the font is build out of blocks, but doesn't really mimic that 'typical' pixelated' look.

Megan 1-Dec.

Make sure to sharpen the 2 indexes you offer.
1. your index how you ordered it from open government to surveillance capitalism'

2. The index based on article page visits.

create a clear separation between the 2. use for example different Colors for the second index. ex. black and white.

STEP 8: IDEA #4=#2

After some feedback, I starting doubting about the receipt printer idea, it felt to loose from the original concept so I dropped the idea.

The website would function now as a index to the book and the book will contain the articles sequenced for a fluent narrative.

All articles will be coloured based on their position with my story

Red; The concept of surveillance capitalism

Orange; Behavioral Technology

light blue; Civic technology

Blue; Open government

An extra view to see how many times the articles have been openend