Web 2.0 Suicide Machine / 4
Questions and answers
What they want to do now is launch the whole machine and let people distribute the machine and run it from their computer.
Gordan on Facebook.
To raise the awareness about data retention.
What happened in Worm before: The Web 2.0 Suicide Night.
Seeing positive aspects in social networking, but looking for a balance between comfort and control.
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The Moddr collective and Worm, a small venue that organizes events, club nights, workshops, etc. How to use technology in a critical way: workshops and films by Moddr. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, inspired by the idea of "unfriending" others in social networks. A viral marketing campaign by Burger King: 230.000 people unfriended. |
Pretending to be a big company. The Suicide Machine timeline. The IP ban from Facebook and ball starts to roll. The speed of media coverage in the Web 2.0 era. The news fist started in Twitter ad ended up on TV. People liked project so much that paradoxically started to create FB pages. Legal issues and Worm's suicide. |
The hacking of a South Park episode celebrating the Suicide Machine. A similar project: an application removing from your friends the ones with connection with an austrian politician (doing his campaign on FB). A festival collecting letters from artist groups that received take down notes from various companies: their take down note to Simona Lodi. |
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Questions and answers What they want to do now is launch the whole machine and let people distribute the machine and run it from their computer. Gordan on Facebook. To raise the awareness about data retention. What happened in Worm before: The Web 2.0 Suicide Night. |
