{"id":325,"date":"2012-10-12T21:29:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T21:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitaleconomy.soton.ac.uk\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2012-10-12T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T21:29:48","slug":"nothing-is-what-is-seems-when-its-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/2012\/10\/12\/nothing-is-what-is-seems-when-its-free\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNothing is what is seems when it\u2019s free \u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sage words from Mike Lister<\/a>, one of the panel members at SXSC2. How many of us have been seduced into attending a boring meeting by the promise of a quality buffet or a glass of decent wine? Or maybe you\u2019ve handed over your personal details to a website in exchange for a 20 per cent voucher off the price of something or other? Surely there\u2019s no harm in Facebook, Google etc because they are useful services and, besides, they are free?
\nThe marketing guru added a commercial perspective to the discussions on the future of digital technologies. Earlier, keynote speaker and author of Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen (who wasn\u2019t too upset at being dubbed \u2018the antichrist of the Internet\u2019) called for us to \u201cfight again the economy of free\u201d and urged debate on new business models and the urgency for widespread data literacy, before all our personal information ends up in the virtual vaults of the big social media companies. He even asked us to think seriously about government restrictions on the free market of information.
\nAccording to Mike, Facebook isn\u2019t a social network, it\u2019s an advertising stream: Google isn\u2019t a search engine, it\u2019s an avid collector of personal information for its own financial devices.
\nAccording to Andrew, many web marketeers think \u2018privacy is for old people \u2013 like a gas light, it will just fade away\u2019.
\nFood for thought? Prawn vol-au-vent anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sage words from Mike Lister, one of the panel members at SXSC2. How many of us have been seduced into attending a boring meeting by the promise of a quality buffet or a glass of decent wine? Or maybe you’ve handed over your personal details to a website in exchange for a 20 per cent […]<\/p>\n

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