Chapter Ideas

Chapter and Thesis Ideas

Extremely Huge and Incredibly Complex:

Big Data leads to the overpersonalization of the Internet.

                -But is is a huge opportunity for a new kind of artist/communicator, visualizers

                -maybe a bare-bones interface (Google of old) with a promise of a “dumb” search will catch on

Proximity, Privacy, and Identity

Questions about our identity arising in the Internet age are the next phase of a process that began with feudalism and urbanization.

                -Turkle and the projection of our identity

                -How our privacy expectations are correlated with how much we interact with people

                -Our image-consciousness is related to how much we look at other people and affects our    sense of identity

Tool vs. Pellet Feeder

The happiest and most productive users of the Internet use it to complement their natural world goals.

                -Digital Addictions

                -Principled use

                -Lack of vision

Intellectual Property

Support liberal licenses that circumvent copyright so that we can have a healthier and more natural digital diet.

                -What we eat is used to build our bodies. So with digital consumption? 

                -Thenewest lexicon: pop culture, the newest set of grammar rules: memes

                -disruptive innovation