“Tools that are designed to make intelligible something alive, the life of the network.” Interview of Hugues AUBIN, ICT Project Manager, City of Rennes (France)
Yes, this is mandatory. In Charente Maritime[1], a school teacher launched an experiment. She introduced her students to Twitter. At first, the school principal was quite reluctant to give this initiative the go-ahead, but in the end, as the operation had solid foundations given a thoroughly written educational process, he was reassured. When he saw how successful the operation turned out to be, he asked the school teacher to set up an experimental curriculum with her students. This discovery-oriented training program comprised of network memory, extimacy and e-reputation management saw the day in September 2010. To my knowledge, it is the sole junior high school curriculum of its kind in France, and yet, these notions are really crucial. “Schmitz”, Google and Facebook bosses have recently made outstanding statements! Speeches that inform you that the youth of today might have to change their name when they turn 18 are quite telling. There is obviously a “close link” between functionality and free service. People would accept anything provided they could get it for free. One very clear example involves applications enabling you to send virtual flowers or hearts via Facebook. To use these applications, you must allow them access to your Facebook data after which the application will then know everything about you. There is not any function to let you know exactly how much of your digital identity you are, ultimately, revealing, to quantify which contents you are making available and which configurations you are using: completely exposed, hidden, semi-hidden, etc. Facebook allows you somewhat to do so, but not with this type of application. Given that Facebook boasts several hundred million members, I think you get an idea of how huge the amount of data collected each week must be. This kind of tool provides extremely powerful tracking capacities. Another issue also comes to mind: Network memory. If ever I were to spot a picture I don’t wish to see online, I’ll never be able to find all of the copies of it diffused on the web. That said, the web is an ever-renewed space, and you can trace back information pretty far. Twitter, for instance, has a memory that goes back approximately 9 weeks, but as it is regularly scanned by search engines, it is possible to go even further back in time. I don’t think those who feed lifestream-type flows actually have the means to erase their own spoors. Along the same lines, I can’t afford to waste time deleting my first 14,000 tweets! We need to teach children and everyone else how to be cautious about what you disclose on the web. This urgency is all the more so knowing that the parents of young Internet users have a limited choice between expensive filtering software, for those who can afford it, or a low quality one that is offered by Internet service providers. […] A number of players are aware of this need to educate, but concretely, as far as tools and practices are concerned, we still have a long way to go.
Identiscoop, a tool for managing extimacy ?
Identiscoop by Edouard Durand
Grégoire Cliquet: You supervised Édouard Durand. What is your take on the role of interaction designers and design within this context?
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