谢谢妈妈!
谢谢爸爸妈妈。

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@iyoake
谢谢妈妈!
谢谢爸爸妈妈。
Be yourself, find love.
每一个想写作的早午晨,我都相信自己。爱自己。承认自己,原谅自己,成为自己。
morning covid test
I woke up around 10am, had a shower, dressed up simple and went out to a hospital near home that has been confirmed they have a covid test spot opening in the morning.
Honestly, to get up at 10 is super difficult for me but sometimes, people need to be pushed to do something that is out of your personal willingness, just don’t do it often. I took up my Martins shoes with high thick heels, and felt stable and secure while going out. It is normal after years practicing self independency anyways.
There are barely any people on the street, with a temperature of around 15 Celsius degrees on a normal spring day in March. Flowers and trees are spreading out their differentiations to modern lives, they are doing well.
It is not a shock that the hospital gate has been closed, for a reason unknown but usually very normal in a communism driven country. So I got cheated again by the system for a morning again. That sucks!
But it’s not true, as there are barely any people on the street and my empty stomach feels like some good food. This is a nice compound with lots of cuisine choices in both eastern and western style. I can instantly remember a coffee shop around the street corner that would only take me another 10mins walk. I walked there. Bought a medium size hot latte, sat on the street together with a few people that looked kind of wanting to waste their mornings too. I did that. Thinking about if I should send a hi to my previous date who had big fights with me, after finishing half of my latte, I stood up and walked back.
It’s just a simple morning like this, they warned me, with a restlessness and mandating tone, on text. But my code still appeared to be green. What can I do? I don’t have a choice except regretting not stopping for a test when I hit into a spot on the street three days ago, but what can I do? I just didn’t go.
I sat in a garden. Found this city became totally new to me that no one was actually wanting or eagering or getting authorised to direct my life. And I am not obliged to be responsible for anyone else too. But a moment like this, I felt safe. I could even send a message to people I miss. This is incredible. An old man had no other choice but to sit beside me because he wanted to appreciate the garden, the spring humidity, the skating kids here too, and a vibe. He has a small bag of garlic with him. He will go back home too, cooking his home a meal, during our shared covid era.
20211010/ Tried to be poetic.
To trip to a small village near, those villages abandoned by the general public and also the official narratives.
It still exists, people there unsurprisingly live normally as the normality regulates our characters.
It was never well lived, the spotlights never landed on it for a time. So when everything else is rushing forward, it weirdly has no luck to win a game, just for once.
The main continent has a fate, geologically it is huge that is inclusive. However it cannot escape the fate of being ignored, by itself or by the outsides.
Of all time, we are living in different illusions.
And me and a man who's important in my life went to a temple, that was the second time I went there. We entered the gate on a new moon day. The temple faces a lake that waxes in October. That man explains, it's a year when everything is not on track.
The first time I felt that I was ready, to have a conversation with the spirit, peacefully. My wishes were not out of normal, and I guess she is a Sagittarius, she must understand. Even at the times that I don't understand.
How to be an artist
Define an artist
Integrate my personal experiences, a topic of “being an artist” really triggers my passion for writing something about it.
Although art has form, some people born to be an artist and they know it from a very age, some people do not.
I always believe that someone who defines her/himself as an artist would be super clear on the things that they are doing, this becomes an obstacle for me to positioning myself as an artist deep inside for a long time. But I cherish the vague/ no border feeling now.
Being an artist has a lot of ways. Similar to anti-social defining success, being an artist does not mean that your art piece has to be known to people. It’s an inward process. A place where you feel like you are an artist, start from there.
Find a specific way of creating art
Like Amy Winehouse sang, and I questioned myself for a lot of times: what is the right way for me? I have a lot of interests and hobbies, every one of them attracts me.
My artist friend gave me suggestions on placing oneself along with her/his career, he said one sentence that really impressed me: I have my own ways of creating art and I know it’s the right way. The time he said it I instantly get the point: art is like a meditation, people just need to find the correct way for your meditate.
Now I believe everyone can be an artist as long as you have the will to keep meditating and put honesty into lives. Nothing is sweeter than that.
Transforming ideas into daily lives
An important point here is to keep consistency for what you are doing. No matter the consistency is the clock for you to wake up, the food species you eat, the skincare process that you take every day, just keep in mind about them. I believe art is a collective of enjoyable moments and when you find enough of them, the workpiece will happen naturally.
Truly believe
This is not an easy thing to do. Practicing the idea of truly believing that one kind of creation or accumulation is happening, all we need to do is to wait. Wait for the testing time coming to tell you that beauty and love is the only answer to the unquestioned and of course, the questioned.
Home observation
I started to live alone, after stayed one and a half months with family because of the pandemic. I have not stayed at home for such a long time for years, to be honest, it feels so good except the everyday scrolling devasting news in the Chinese world. How good? Let me elaborate.
Before CNY, I planned to stay with parents for nearly ten days and would utilize the days to complete a goal: to observe my parents’ life as well as to discover myself’s. It’s a really great thing to do as it’s well known that home life can deeply influence an individual’s lives subconsciously, I doubted that before when I had big fights with my parents when I was at teenage age, I believe that now as I slowly discover the bondage between lives, from every aspect.
Pandemic gave me a chance to have a deeper look upon my goal.
- Food
I am a foodie though I cannot cook well. Thanks to my mom, her cooking builds up most of my memories when I was at a younger age. I seldom posted photos on social media about mom’s cooking when the peers always do. There’s a reason for it. My mom went so busy because of work later on since I went to high school, I always doubt the memories of the good food, does it really exists? Almost ten years pasts, I finally found an answer to it this time, it really exists. My mom uses time and her attentiveness to cook nice food for me also builds up a familiar lifestyle routine which means so much to me. Life constructed by different routines as well as meditation when we get familiar with them. The experience of having those good foods is like a missing puzzle that finally finds its place mentally. I cannot be more grateful for this.
What has my mom cooked on these days——I categorize them into different varieties. Soup/ main food/ dishes/ sweets.
Soup, let’s say beef soup, pork soup, cuttlefish soup, every day there was a difference. Without an excipient, a soup won’t be completed. My mom put different vegetables into the soups every day. For example, beef can only taste good when it cooks with winter melon.
Main food, I have no imagination of the main food, especially we are a family that lives in the south part of China. We mainly eat rice rather than noodles to the peeps who are living in the north. My mom breaks the rule, rice plus some vermicelli; sticky rice; sometimes even sweet potato could be an option.
I enjoy dishes when there are different vegetables. We could actually cook vegetables in a lot of ways, Tofu, spinach, tomato, salty, spicy or light flavor, there are so many options to create. With so many choices, my stomach could become bigger because of that, I always eat food and forget about time, just enjoying the chewing, in a way, I feel there’s a reason for people always puts certain food as a connotation for porn.
Sweets, I enjoyed several kinds of sweet sticky rice by days. Well...it’s mostly carbohydrate.
- Communication
Like Lee’s film, the family conversations are mostly about eating. What do you want to eat for dinner? What do you want to eat tomorrow? Chinese people put love and emotions into their food and it penetrates into my family livings as well. I may fight with my parents as well for it’s a very sensitive time for every Chinese. Unlike most of the conversations that happened between me and my friends, besides exchange ideas, we try to convince each other, it’s a two-way thing.
One day, I just realized the convos that happened are not exactly what I was thinking about, I learn to observe the way of me speaking to my parents and believed there are many ways to help to improve it.
- Weather
Why weather is a selected topic here? It starts from a day afternoon when the dawn is about to come, I stand on the roof of my house. Just looking down on the paths and the community that I’ve grown up at. A Deja Vu hit me, the smell in wind, the soft dawn falls on me, even the plants color, the ambient sounds from everywhere. It suddenly brought me back to the old days, when I was concentrating on growing up. Without that weather, I won’t be recalled. There was a missing part like how this small city feeds me in and nurtured me. The answer is that its’ pureness and honesty.
- Hobbies
Leaving home for around ten years, I understand my parents through memories, imagination and fragmentized phone calls. This winter gives me a good chance to live together with them again. Their hobbies are small touchpoints for me. What kind of tea that my dad likes to drink? what calligraphies that my dad is into? When my mom is about sleep? I was amazed by the other day after my mom made me a good dinner murmuring that she needs to plant aloe later, the aloes are used for skincare though I thought it’s just about planting. It’s a very my mom thing and super cute. 👍❤️
07/19
Start to write something here. Like daily routine. For observing myself. How my cognition changes.
Today’s inspiration: the real person who would inspire me is all about their passion and mind. This never changed.
原始的网络:互联网的早期想象
(帮政见的新项目“针尖”写的,也是对霍炬老师互联网已死论的回应和补充,难得配这么多图…)
当年轻人在智能机的各种社交媒体应用中切换时,他们大多不会想到曾经的网络并不是如今的模样。这两年,面对网络高速的集权化和寡头化,怀旧的情绪也开始悄悄滋长。老人们怀念论坛时期的公共说理,博客年代的内容独立,前脸书时代的数据隐私,如同怀念一个早夭的生命。
不过“老人们”口中那个年代,在更老的一辈人看来,也已经算是新鲜事物。如果说这代网民还有部分人对博客和论坛有着模糊的记忆,那么再往前的岁月可谓踪迹难觅。著名的Wayback Machine从1996年开始运作,但纪录下的内容也只是冰山一角。更早以前的互联网模样,很多只有在口述史出没了。
事实上,早期网络史上涌现过不少独特的项目,这些项目中所包含的对互联网的种种想象,值得今日深陷数字帝国中的我们重访并反思。
Usenet和Minitel:前万维网时代的平等主义 虽然如今的蒂姆·伯纳斯-李堪称去中心网络运动的旗手,万维网远非第一个进行去中心尝试的平台。万维网起步时,Usenet已经在去中心的道路上走了很久。事实上,伯纳斯李正是在Usenet上宣布了万维网的诞生。
图一:Apple II上的Usenet截图,今天没人可以忍受这样的界面了吧
由两位杜克大学学生构想的Usenet类似于后来的BBS和邮件组,但采用更开放的内核。与有着中心服务器和管理者的论坛和贴吧不同,它是一个不需要注册,完全去中心的信息交换系统。一个服务器发出的消息和文件,会被自动转发给别的服务器备份,最终连接起网络上的所有用户。Usenet是80年代互联网文化政治讨论最关键的平台。在谷歌保存的历史档案中,你可以读到对威廉吉布森《神经浪游者》的评论,也可以一窥当年地下摇滚圈的粉丝对战。
当然,Usenet并不是自由言论的天堂,很多不加审核的群组都涌进大量垃圾信息,这也成为SPAM的起源。另外,Usenet上围绕Linux等话题的骂战(Flame War),也可以被看作最早的网络巨魔文化。
另外值得一书的网络则是法国政府推行的Minitel网络。70年代在前总统德斯坦的倡议下,法国在科研上投入巨资,从而研发出Minitel系统:与电话相连,具备网络功能的家用终端机。只要家庭缴纳电话费,就可以免费获得一台Minitel设备。于是,80年代连纽约人都需要在中央车站排队买票的时候,巴黎人已经可以足不出户订购各种服务。Minitel当然不只是一个订票终端,更是新闻网、游戏厅、讨论室和二手交易平台。
图二:一种Minitel终端,可以看到用的是AZERTY键盘
由于资费便宜,操作简单,Minitel实现了高度的大众化,90年代末有九百万活跃的终端。所以直到2000年以后,万维网用户才逐步超过了Minitel订购者。又因为网络非商用,每个终端都有平等的被访问的权利,也省去了网络不中立的烦恼。如今由于美国的网络中立性议题出现倒退,人们又想起了已于2012年关闭的Minitel。它的硬件已经过时,哲学却超前于时代。
行动者的实验室:早期的万维网政治 进入万维网年代,独立项目更是呈现井喷的态势。1993年4月,10位UCSD的激进学生创建了BURN!项目,希望借助互联网的革命潜质连接起全世界的抗争运动。与如今很多行动者的想法一致,这群大学生很快意识到,必须搭建自己的服务器,才可以有真正的数据独立,同时又可以帮助到很多别的团队。
图三:DeeDee Halleck,独立媒体行动者,BURN!的主要支持者,当时在UCSD传播学任教
很快,这些学生通过拼装废弃的电脑,制作好了原始服务器,并通过学校宽带发布了站点。在网站的背景介绍中,团队成员们写到:“我们的理念是直接参与报道,而不是被动接受商业媒体告诉我们的东西。我们提供信息,人们可以自行判断。我们创造了这个激进的社会媒体(radical social media),发布其他致力于改变社会的项目信息,最终推动根本的社会变革。”
BURN!团队将自己看作保卫互联网公共属性的行动者,避免网络被私有化力量所收编宰制。这种看法在早期的互联网上非常有代表性,人们普遍认为网络象征着公司权力外的另类场域,值得被珍惜和守护。BURN!始终恪守着这一初衷,也使其成为当时各个激进团队和争议站点的庇护所。在鼎盛时期,BURN!存放了另外20个网站和5-10个邮件列表的数据,开设了一个讨论组,提供了几十个激进组织的外链,并保存了大量关于社会运动和革命的历史资料。虽然BURN!的网络于2000年被UCSD切断,他们的理念,成为了后来声势更浩大的独立媒体运动(Indymedia)的雏形。
几乎与BURN!的激进媒体运动同时,大西洋对岸的阿姆斯特丹也在实验他们的数字城市(Digital City)项目。1994年加入万维网后,阿姆斯特丹人迅速打造出了全体市民皆可参与的虚拟城市。市民可以自由进入“市政厅”、“图书馆”、“报社”等场所参观,新建住宅和商业设施,也可以在公共会议上与其他市民讨论社会议题。这种平等审议的模式之所以得以实现,与荷兰当时的本地文化息息相关。
图四:1995年的数字城市界面,每个八边形代表一个组织或者区域
早在60年代,先于欧洲自治运动,荷兰就经历了频繁的房屋占领行动。以无政府组织Provo为代表的社会团体,把所有权不明的房屋屋门涂成白色,邀请需要的人入住。到了80年代,各种之前弃置不用的屋宇已经被改造成音乐场所、独立电台和画廊。占领运动不仅将自治的理念推广给了更多公众,也培养出了最早一批具备实验精神的文化人。正是这些文化人积极参与到90年代数字城市项目的搭建中,其中一位还成为了虚拟市长。
如果说BURN!的行动是为了与主流信息环境进行坚决的对抗,阿姆斯特丹的数字城市实验则反映出行动者试图与普通人对话的努力。依托于基金会的赞助,虚拟城市运作到了2001年,最终因为资金不足而被迫关闭。
乌托邦设想与技术决定论 不管是万维网出现之前的Minitel和Usenet,还是90年代初的激进媒体项目,其网络从形态到内容,都比现在的数字空间来得平等和民主。在有限的网速和原始的界面下,网络只能承载得起人与人之间原始的信息与沟通欲望,还未能成为资本血拼的战场。
如今的另类媒体、另类社交网络、和去中心网络的尝试,在设想上未能超越三十年前激进学生们的讨论笔记,在实际传播上也没有Minitel和数字城市那般贴近普通人。而反观它们的敌人,却进化神速。为什么理想主义者总是在原地打转,任凭野心家们平地竖起高楼?
从自由软件运动到维基、从暗网再到最近的零网,都被捆绑上了强烈的技术乌托邦设定。创始人和早期用户们往往是教育良好、熟悉代码的极客,相信网络超越于现实,后者的问题可以利用前者解决。正如媒体运动研究者Todd Wolfson所言,这些人与线下日常政治的脱节,影响到了他们对技术前景的看法。往往正是对技术平台民主潜质的乐观主义,让用户们忘记了践行日常生活的革命。最终,美好的期待一次次落空,新技术一个接一个被体制化。
更何况,早期万维网那种繁荣的民主,往往是中产白人青年内部契约的产物,他们当年并没有准备好迎接多元社会的挑战。1993年,整个互联网上只有不到1000个站点,没有政治极化、没有过滤泡泡,每个新加入的独立站点,都自然可以吸引全网的目光。到了1996年,77%的美国成年人也还没有连上互联网。早期理想主义者的成功,建立在发展不均、资源稀缺、精英垄断的基础之上,与真正并肩战斗的国际主义相去甚远。
二十年过去了,发达社会的互联网话题已经被算法、隐私、和政治机器人所包围,而非洲等地的互联网连接率,还远未达到美国1996年的水平。古巴人依然在黑市和哈瓦那的wifi公园里秘密交换着游戏和视频,缅甸人的互联网资费依然是美国的成千上万倍。脸书的成功,在世界地图的映照下变得稀薄无比。那些处在主流互联网历史边缘的人们,会复制一条通往奴役的老路,还是会顺利躲开那些暗礁与乱流?如果我们无法完整讲述已有的故事,就无法阻止后来人堕入黑暗。
延伸阅读: Crecente, Brian. 2017. “Cuba: Where Underground Arcades, Secret Networks and Piracy Are a Way of Life.” Polygon. May 15. https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/15/15625636/cuba-video-games.
Driscoll, Kevin, and Camille Paloque-Berges. 2017. “Searching for Missing ‘net Histories.’” Internet Histories 1 (1–2): 47–59. doi:10.1080/24701475.2017.1307541.
Mailland, Julien. 2017. “Minitel, the Open Network Before the Internet.” The Atlantic, June 16. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/minitel/530646/.
Nevejan, Caroline, and Alexander Badenoch. 2014. “How Amsterdam Invented the Internet: European Networks of Significance, 1980–1995.” In Hacking Europe, 189–217. History of Computing. Springer, London. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-5493-8_9.
Wolfson, Todd. 2014. “Activist Laboratories of the 1990’s.” Cultural Studies 28 (4): 657–75. doi:10.1080/09502386.2014.888931.
Mixtape-1701
1. Im Tollen Wahn - Bloody Woods
2. Seekers who are lovers - Cocteau Twins
3. Bachelorette - Bjork
4. Drone Bomb Me - ANOHNI
5. Two Weeks - FKA Twigs
6. Waiting - R3
7. Multiply (Instant Party! Bootleg) - Instant Party!
8. Trust Me I'm A Genius (R3 mix) - R3
9. 抚琴小夜曲 - 声音玩具
New Year Resolution
最近我一直被一些事情困扰,去完朱家角跨年之后,身边的朋友给了我一些新的启发。关于做梦,关于催眠,时间维度,还有善良的本心。但还是因为觉得自己最近的节奏不再高压,硬生生的生出了很多焦虑,已经是过去的经验无法解释的一些焦虑。
一个是对工作的焦虑,当下的工作给了我许多时间去管理自己的生活,也帮助我深入观察自己,我更多地在内在的获得而非从外在,这和2016年自己的节奏完全不一样,于是我经常不可避免的想起一些旧人旧事。
还有就是对爱情的焦虑,deep inside我希望用工作抹去爱情带给我的困扰,但最近两天却愈发意识到这是两件事,自己很难在同时兼顾自己的两份心情。所以目前的情况是,放下一边,专注于另外一边,有助于我离开当下失意的状况。
以下是New Year Resolution
- 反复练习相信自己的直觉
- 关于工作的焦虑无非是觉得自己接受到的挑战不够高以及不够有趣,因此要练习注意让自己兴奋的事情,并把它们Noted with details
- 晚上和ZZ聊天的时候,我说我对于爱情的看法来源于我会提前把它们定位,当它们超出我的预期的时候,自己会产生挫败感,因而觉得对自己的了解还不够,但因为爱情的不可预期性,我已经学会了保留可能性
- 因而在面对“如何将自己喜欢的事转化成自己的工作”时,目前的我感受到时间是无用的积累,因此,这件事还是归于自己到底喜欢做什么上,而我对自己的认识,对自己过去的经验,无法系统的叙述。只能很模糊的表达出让自己兴奋的事情与人,作为一个INTJ,复杂的思维方式让我在面对问题时太过犹豫,希望在新年,可以提高自己对事物的快速判断力,以及放更多信心在要做的事情上
- 新年最希望的还是对自己的认识有更多的变化,不管是量变还是质变
- 2017似乎是一个可以开始接触佛教的年份
- 想换个发型,变得更加性感
以上。
When he tries to hold my hand and when he keeps pulling me from the backwards.
When he sits to the front as I did and when we lay down back at the same time.
When he looked at my eyes and smile with some hesitation and emotional rejection.
When I am always judging ppl’s emotion deep inside as an INTP always does.
When I refrained the feelings and can only step forward by finding out his clear mind.
When I am analysing my mind and his, when I keep analysing.
I know I keep telling myself that I can hold back the emotion but actually, I am just a frank but fragile person who can’t confront the feelings as it’s a congenital thing.
I tried to control you and now I am still wanting to. How to SET YOU FREE my love. Just tell me.
Just found this place and realized I haven’t been here for one year.
Things changed a lot, when reading back the old words, I find that I was appeared to be a bit knowledgeable...? Which is a good thing anyways. I am just getting back from Guiyang because of someone but got really frustrated, in these years I am always pursuing love, a true love. Meeting different ppl, exchanging ideas, that’s the biggest motivation for me, as always. I thought in the past year, working at VICE really taught me a lot, the experience, the attitude and the people, but at same time, it refreshes my perspective to the world and to my career. Now I am more realistic towards the livings. Can’t say it’s good or not but I guess that’s why I got so flattered when meeting someone who seems holds the same idea as me. So called #knowledge motivated.
After ignoring all the concerns, I did a thing that I never tried before, actually I can foresee the result but to some unexplainable reason, I decided to make it for at least once.
I did it, and I think that’s the end of the story. Hope I can still heared something back from you, as you know I am always here waiting and I am always here.
算法的政治
“在一个充斥异议者的世界里,我的脸书页面却和迪士尼乐园一样。”这是数字媒体研究者Zeynep Tufekci在专栏中发出的感叹。Tufekci和她的朋友们早就发现,突发事件来临时,不同的社交平台往往呈现完全不同的景观,推特的算法会更突出当下流行的新闻,而相比之下,脸书对事件的播报则常常慢了好几拍。
为什么会出现这样的延迟?因为像脸书这样的社交平台,不仅会主动过滤人们看到的消息,还会基于算法推送更多得到用户like的内容(初步的采访显示六成用户对脸书用算法过滤信息并不知情)。显然,相比于坏消息,那些分享美食,旅行和晒娃的照片会得到朋友们更热烈的点赞。而另一方面,脸书并没有对应的功能,来突出那些人们认为重要,但显然不该点赞的消息。
某种程度上说,脸书是一个难以传递悲伤,又不断对深刻内容加以逆淘汰的社交平台。对此,用户也曾激烈抗议,而公司最新的回应,则是声称即将推出对应like的dislike按钮。它总会用一些浮皮潦草的举措,来回避核心的算法不公正:用喜欢/不喜欢的粗暴情绪划分,来取代重要/不重要的议题界限。
既网络中立性后,算法中立性又成为了欧美社会激辩的议题。通常意义上被认为是机器执行的,中立的互联网算法,包括搜索引擎,购物网站,社交网络所使用的算法,都被发现并不中立。基于算法政治的讨论,构成了十多年前对代码政治的反思变体:形塑网络空间的各类代码与其说是走向自由的栈道,不如说只是另一层控制的糖衣。
进化中的算法将常态进一步常态化,让社交进一步反社交化。人们一度以为,网络空间是对现实的一种叛逃,现实所不能拥有的,可以在虚拟空间实现。一开始,互联网似乎确实发挥了这样的功用。然而越是靠近当下,网络相对现实的自由度就越小。随着机器学习的算法逐步流行,它的首要任务变成了仿制与预测现实。久而久之,网络甚至变成了比现实更加保守的维稳力量。研究发现,互联网算法,尤其是社交媒体算法所呈现的,是一个财富,种族与性别更加不平等的世界。
保守化的回潮,确实不只是脸书一家在推动,而成了几乎所有社交平台的合谋。一向被视为社运先锋队的推特,最近也因为一场关停风波让行动者们失望至极。Politwoops和Diplotwoops是实时跟踪政治人物是否删除其言论的工具。八月底,推特取消了它们访问主站数据的权限,理由是违反了条例,因为“所有推特用户享有一样的隐私权”。讽刺的是,Politwoops和Diplotwoops并不是今年新出现的破坏性工具,它们已经分别运行了三年多和一年多,记录下无数政客的删除行为,有的是因为错字或者跑题,但更多是毁尸灭迹:删除可能让自己惹上麻烦的言论。
互联网普及后,我们目睹了三个进程的接连登场。博客出现到社交网络崛起组成了第一阶段,政治信息往往在特定的小圈子中打转。在俄罗斯,土耳其等竞争性威权国家,或在更封闭的伊朗,政治博客主构成了重要的网络声场,他们虽然与大众脱离,却多少可以抱团取暖,自成气候。不论时代怎么变,这群人总能寻找到稳定的群体认同和表达渠道。
社交媒体流行初期构成了第二阶段,新的平台不断涌现,商业模式尚未稳定,政治信息通过数字平台得到了爆发式的传播,“解放性科技”的论调在各大报头大幅上扬。这时候,新的社交平台为了扩大自己的影响力,往往并不怕被政治化。
如今则是社交媒体充分普及的第三阶段,既有的独立平台被全面冲毁,过去的政治信息不再是小圈子的志业,而是大众关注的无数个话题之一。行动者面对的观众数目增长了,他们需要在一个更广阔,却受到更多算法操纵,不确定性更高的平台上博取注意力。著名异议者,伊朗博客之父Derakhshan(Hoder)忧伤地表示:社交媒体围栏外的互联网正在死去。
一种新的可怕未来正在生成。关注表达自由的用户们,要么继续与社交平台残酷的算法和审查作斗争,要么回归一个温暖的小圈子。这两种可能的路径,都面临着极低的胜算:按照现有的法律框架,抵抗算法不公面临的是22条军规:只有明确的证据,才可以控告公司,而如果算法不够公开,就无法获得明确的证据。在不透明的算法下,退守到曾经的小圈子,做一个抵制算法的新卢德主义者,面临的则是进一步的边缘化。况且,在一个网络攻击常态化的时代,体量小的独立平台,已经很难在数据的洪流中保护自己。
六年前,推特为了支持伊朗反对派而推迟了系统维护的时间。六年后,科技公司们开始考虑重回大陆市场。开放的年代很短,中国梦却可以很长,时间,并没有站在行动者这边。
推荐阅读:
Hoder于2008年至2014年末被关押,错过了社交媒体大行其道的六年。六年的离线生涯让其对互联网之变更加敏感。出狱后半年,Hoder撰写了反思互联网格局的长文<The Web We Have to Save>: https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426
Zeynep Tufekci的回应长文<The Web of Relationships We Have to Save>: https://medium.com/message/the-web-of-relationships-we-have-to-save-7f337de03e34
万古杂志长文<Digital Star Chamber>: http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/judge-jury-and-executioner-the-unaccountable-algorithm/
独立杂志Model View Culture的评论<The Politics of Trending>: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-politics-of-trending
纽约时报Upshot栏目的算法政治研究总结: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/upshot/when-algorithms-discriminate.html
spend a quite magic weekend with S, recovered from the illness, finally I got energetic. woke up quite early in the morning and go directly to Jingan Temple, get lost in the mess people but so excited for attending the Shanghai book fair, just hanging all around in the hall, in different book section, the mood pushed me bought several books. though I did not expect that so much people will go to the fair, it still astonished me to some extent. book sellers offers discounts for those books though it’s cheap enough already. Buying book in mainland China is definitely a bargain. So I just step through, searching my interested one. S came a bit late then we got not much time for 张佳玮, still got his signed book eventually LOL, and even chat a little bit with him!!!XD
Though Shanghai is in a decent temperature recently, after the book fair, me and S decide to take a walk around, did not expect we took so many wired photos then and even talk with passerby a lot, definitely SUNDER! And got several plans for next week that I never tried, could be interesting. magic things will happen.
Consciousness Flow
thought I write certain things here. I finished my daily work today early, I was asked to leave early, the sky still keeps light, the wind surrounded me like it’s not a hot summer. The cars lights up, people ride bicycles quickly. I pass by a group of people, they stopped beside road, and set up clothes hanger, in the central of this city. people have their stories. I took the number 23, I find a seat, there are always seats for me, I started scan information on my phone and listening music at the same time, did not notice the local people, how they continued their night life in this city.
touching, sensing, listening.
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