A walled garden is meant to be a safe haven A walled garden has -entrances and exits -there are keepers with a gardener's mentality: content tending, no weeds, no dog droppings, no trash - control is at the gate, security, surveillance, gatekeeping offline equivalents: celebration: documentary http://www.submarine.nl/film.jsp?project=959 walt disney's plan for a city of the future unmoderated gardens: commons, wasteland, forest, slums, Packrat example: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2431403991 Activism inside a social network: the action is in some sense only about the inside of the social network. Provides a sense of the walled gardenness. Digiactive Introduction to Facebook Activism: http://www.digiactive.org/2008/06/28/guide-a-digiactive-introduction-to-facebook-activism/ Walled gardens and stickiness. Hotel california: "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave" Creating the Walled Garden, M. Guhlin "The following list is useful if you want to create a "walled garden" of safe Web 2.0 tools you can use within your school's intranet, or even Internet, but have complete control over". The ultimate walled garden is the charted earth. W. Wenders - Until the end of the world: "Amidst a traffic jam, the impatient and disconnected Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin) escapes the congestion by driving off the highway, is told by her Dashboard Computer System that she has left the Map Zone Database and is on her own, and subsequently has a couple of odd encounters" Thinking widgets, APIs, etc. where are the gates, the content reaches out to you, the walled gardens of the Web have other walls and politics of exclusivity. Preliminary Research- which of these platforms is mostly associated with the term walled garden? Query "Walled garden" facebook (etc) Facebook: 99,900 AOL: 53,300 MySpace: 50,700 LinkedIn: 18,700 other example: Mapping the primaries project over time (Betsy Sinclair with Issuecrawler) march 2008: contemporary walled garden with its feeds. how walled gardens emerge and are sustained. In order for it to sustain itself, it has to become personalized. - Walled gardens create the sense of security. comparisons between the privacy settings of various networks what makes you feel private? how would one simulate that? Richard: "Javascript is the enemy of analysis!" Project Ideas- How each sns is being positioned within the debate of the walled garden - Friend me button - controlled openness (widgets and buttons) - googlebility button / service - privacy simulator: what is the most reassuring? what is the ideal privacy environment - which share service has the most tentacles? Andrea: cookies are tentacles! quantify what cookies you receive from that page and who do they come from how is each walled garden also present in other sites? - leaky databodies - seeds flying over walls to other walled gardens - googlability as a new gate -regimes of visibility
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