The Internet is becoming more expansive, dynamic, abstract. Generalists see due to the depth of increasingly overwhelmed and give up, specialists are in seventh heaven data. Information Over Love - a song of praise to the focused masters the flood of data, illustrated by Michael Müller
Whether on your smartphone, in the browser, in the car or even in the washing machine: The Internet is everywhere. This trend makes dealing with the excesses of the data network increasingly complex. Yesterday there were only Facebook and Twitter, today there are visual networks like YouTube, Instagram or Pinterest which grow remarkably strong.
This dynamic range of ever new offers and services even asks old Internet rabbit out anew every day, and so kills many fragile scion of curiosity already supersaturated germ. So the question arises whether these vast, difficult to control digital ground is a welcome trend, which is to be welcomed without objections? To answer this question, we look first of all, two years ago.
From real life to digital - the flood of data thanks be
2013, Turkey went through a small digital revolution. Istanbul, as it geographical as well as cultural interface between East and West, was transferred within a few hours in a state of emergency, as thousands against the conservative policies of the government Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan took to the streets.
The social networks pulsed and Turkish-speaking hashtags and trends worldwide occupied top positions. Every second flushed real life, the real protest, real masses of text, photos and videos from the epicenter of the violence into the digital data network.
The Turkish Spring spawned an Internet phenomenon that has been shared among the hashtag #duranadam on Twitter. "Duran Adam", the standing man remained, motionless and speechless for hours on the central Taksim Square in Istanbul, his gaze on a huge banner of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk directed.
Whether on your smartphone, in the browser, in the car or even in the washing machine: The Internet is everywhere. This trend makes dealing with the excesses of the data network increasingly complex. Yesterday there were only Facebook and Twitter, today there are visual networks like YouTube, Instagram or Pinterest which grow remarkably strong.
This dynamic range of ever new offers and services even asks old Internet rabbit out anew every day, and so kills many fragile scion of curiosity already supersaturated germ. So the question arises whether these vast, difficult to control digital ground is a welcome trend, which is to be welcomed without objections? To answer this question, we look first of all, two years ago.
From real life to digital - the flood of data thanks be
2013, Turkey went through a small digital revolution. Istanbul, as it geographical as well as cultural interface between East and West, was transferred within a few hours in a state of emergency, as thousands against the conservative policies of the government Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan took to the streets.
The social networks pulsed and Turkish-speaking hashtags and trends worldwide occupied top positions. Every second flushed real life, the real protest, real masses of text, photos and videos from the epicenter of the violence into the digital data network.
The Turkish Spring spawned an Internet phenomenon that has been shared among the hashtag #duranadam on Twitter. "Duran Adam", the standing man remained, motionless and speechless for hours on the central Taksim Square in Istanbul, his gaze on a huge banner of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk directed.
Night at the police station
A passer-by discovered the artist who recalled in silent protest at the Kemalist values of his homeland, took a picture and shared it via the social network with blue bird. Shortly after the information about a number of Retweets was multiplied and distributed in the network, more people made pilgrimages to #duranadam, starting from the digital pulse, which she received on Twitter.
Minutes later the young man was surrounded by people, camera crews and journalists from all over the world and had to finally spend the night at the police station since the immense interest the crowd, made him a protester who was against the local ban on demonstrations. All over the world leading media then reported on the lone Protestant, in Germany, there were, among others, BILD, Spiegel Online, Stern, SZ, Frankfurter Rundschau and Die Welt.
The real power of the digital multiplier forces
This example illustrates very well the enormous multiplier forces can exert social networks. Based on a real phenomenon that is transferred by means of a photograph in the digital world and divided there quite a few times, a tremendous force that radiates both in digital as well as in the real world discharges.
Without entertaining, raging flood of data, which then ripples incessantly and consequently reached many people who are interested in and focus on the latching, silent man would hardly excited to Taksim Square a stir - it never made it into the global media landscape.
Social profitability outweighs harm
If the flood of data thus actually a welcome trend, which is to be welcomed without objections? #duranadam underlines that the answer is "yes" should read. A small caveat there but because the mass of good and bad data strained enormously. It costs time and energy when it comes to the evaluation of this vast digital overall image. Yet the rising flood of data is also in the future a great opportunity for the entire Internet community, if specialists manage to focus on individual data clouds.
The social return on intensively evaluated and classified here information outweighs the harm that is caused by the resignation depressed generalists ultimately. The time the focus is consequently come - then the free love of the flood of data is no more obstacles. (This article was first published in the quarterly magazine SHIFT).
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