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Super pubblico

Again Danah Boyd has published a contribution very interesting. This time the theme is the public or rather its contemporary version that Danah calls "super public". As the same author refers is not clear but a DEFINITION of an idea in progress. Surely the concept of the public at the time of FarsiMedia is something at once more radical and pervasive than in the past. Surely there is a further freeing of the local link. The public, and this by Gutenberg on, is no longer around to sharing our space-time. Or rather it is just that. The public now is however still something other than the typical indistinct mass communications. Digital

life has really screwed with the notion of public, traditional Removing situationism (Goffman) That connects strangers. If the Kenyan farmer is connected to the Internet and reads Inglese, he can be a part of Bloomberg's public via the New York Times. (...)

People's notion of public radically changes When They Have to account for the Kenyan farmer, lurking Their boss, and the person who will access their speech months from now. People's idea of a public is traditionally bounded by space, time and audience - the park is a public that people understand. And, yet, this is all being disrupted.

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What does it mean to speak across time and space to an unknown audience? What happens when you cannot predict who will witness your act because they are not visible now, even though they may be tomorrow? How do people learn to deal with a public larger and more diverse than the one they learned to make sense of as teenagers? How are teenagers affected by growing up in an environment where they can assume super publics? I want to talk about what it means to speak for all time and space, to audiences you cannot conceptualize.

A reporter recently asked me why kids today have no shame. I told her it was her fault. Media is obsessed with revealing the backstage of people in the public eye - celebrities, politicians, etc. More recently, they've created a public eye to put people into - Survivor, Real World, etc. Open digital expression systems coupled with global networks took it one step farther by saying that anyone could operate as media and expose anyone else. What's juicy is what people want to hide and thus, the media (all media) goes after this like hawks. Add the post-9/11 attitude that if you hide something, you are clearly a terrorist. Should it surprise anyone that teenagers have responded by exposing everything with pride? What better way to react to a super public where everyone is working as paparazzi? There's nothing juicy about exposing what's Already exposed. Do it yourself and You Have Nothing to worry about. These are the kinds of things That are emerging as people face life in super publics.

These sentences clearly emphasize an important aspect of FarsiMedia. Access to communication with a public, a time of a few shareholders, is now open to all. As with traditional media (novels, movies, to soap operas, reality shows) the contents of these conversations very often relate experiences. Constant exposure to these experiences are constantly changing (as always). What seems different today is the amount and frequency of these experiences of experience and constant contact with potential experience very different from those of our own social networks or from those provided by the mass media. Observe the experiences of a senior being a young person, a mother being a man, a student being a professor, a Chinese being a European ... contact with different points of view helps to relativize their own perspective and perhaps, in what way, makes it necessary to assert it. Not in the sense of imposing it but in order to propose it. After all the experiences and private thoughts are not useful to the society of communication. This is like few other precious material capable of understanding and thus enable further notice. The system works best if everything is public. Thus there is still room for the private sector in the era of "super public"? What will become of privacy at the time of FarsiMedia? PS Publications Danah Boyd can be downloaded free online.