Re: <nettime> Once Again, Online Communications are Heroic

[Geoffrey Goodell <goodell@oxonia.net>]

Dear Molly,

I'd like to suggest that the main problem of online communication technology is
not that it is online but that its present form involves platforms operated by
powerful intermediaries (such as Microsoft, Zoom, Google, and so on) who
harvest metadata against the interests of the users of the platforms.

Until online communication is truly peer-to-peer, without control points to
capture rents or profile its users, it will not be an adequate substitute for
human approaches that do not rely upon the blessing of third parties.

Best wishes

Geoff

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 02:58:04PM -0700, Molly Hankwitz wrote:
> Dear nettime - Here is the start of a piece I am thinking about partly to
> quell a tide of rejection of online learning delivery by art students,
> professors, and the elsewise ???real??? community which has been demonstrating
> a customer-mentality towards the shift online - and missing the point of
> the overall deep and lasting value of online communications - as a medium
> of embodied human interaction, correspondence, VOIP, video streaming etc



 
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