Materials: a humanistic way to Facebook, Marco Minghetti, today at: www.marcominghetti.nova100.ilsole24ore.com few days ago I concluded the post titled
THE RISK OF FACEBOOK , expressing the hope that a way could be humanistic in Facebook. The post has attracted
a broader discussion of which I try to summarize the terms.
You must first deal with the constraints of the technological device Facebook compared to the areas of individual creativity. It 's very hard to do, but I think we can show that these spaces are there, and we are right where you are unable to make use of the analog camera. Where the network Facebook is actually network that connects people and not web pages. To achieve this effect may follow different paths. Just think about the simple functionality: Facebook and social networks in general might refine the categories of major distinguishing between connections is possible to determine the value of each connection into the "physical analogy with social relationships (friends, supporters, colleagues, friends, enemies, not friends, friends networking, etc...)
At a deeper level, it could be argued that if the creative only when it is such a perfect "unificatio" between our inner opposites, Facebook meets the need for separation (though it differs from other popular social networks like Linkedin own because in theory allows the exposure of self to 360 degrees and not a portion of it - the experience in the case of Linkedin), separated from us share "bad" (demons, Hillman would say) exposing only a few photos, saying (accounting) Only some aspects of our lives, etc.. This division is carried out by other "friends" on Facebook, with the result that they meet not 2 (or 5,000) people "whole", but 2 (or 5,000) "partial" people. In this sense, communicability is impossible, and also the creativity, the sense of "procreation" (Segal) of that part of himself was born from having joined the opposing sides of each. But here's the paradox of creativity can only come where there is the separation (or else it could be the conjunction), and Facebook, as a tool to divide, can facilitate creativity. But everything depends on knowing how to combine our opposites. Even in companies: people to achieve their objectives only if they combine the roles of employee / person out of the Self. Taken to the extreme this reasoning we should admit that the move is materialized with Facebook is determined not so much a representation of itself without mediation, as a "partial self-representation" is such a bias that ensures the protection, and is, in a some extent, corresponding to a false identity. The name is true, but that name is associated with experiences, phrases, photos, chosen by one of us, or worse, Big Brother, the Censor of Facebook, which decides what we can publish and what not. And however one might add that the control over reality, especially our inner reality, or only a portion of it, is always illusory. As he writes in the poem Wislawa Szymobrska Everything, Nothing in recovery and commented twice
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All -
a word bold and brimming with arrogance.
should be written in quotation marks.
He pretends not to leave anything out,
to focus, include, contain, and have.
But it is only a piece of
storm.
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On the other hand, it is also true that such work is possible to obtain business goals only when they work, an authentic Union with the All, is assegnataci to the task, and above all, aspects of Self: those who accepted and those who dodge but you are still in the form of relationships with work colleagues deleterious, with workplace stress, bullying, and so on. What we take away from us returns in distorted form, because it is always present in us.
An incident a few days ago makes it clear this issue. Facebook automatically removes all sexually explicit. However, a ruckus erupted when Facebook started to take off from the pages of our members some photos deemed 'obscene': mothers who breastfeed infants., "A show full breast with the nipple and areola, and then remove them." "They violate the conditions of publication ban on Facebook obscene material, pornographic, sexually explicit, "said Barry Schnitt, a spokesman for Facebook. But the mothers complained of screaming and horror over the world are mobilizing to protest. Capopopolo of the revolt is Kelli Roman, a 23 year-old Californian. She was one of the first to suffer the removal of the photos in which he was portrayed while nursing her baby, a year ago, when his page on facebook has not found more. Sought an explanation, she was told: "Imagine contrary to our policy." So much was enough to trigger the young mother who immediately launched a petition on the official site: "Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene! '. A river in flood: more than 105 000 people have signed and protested against censorship. Not only that. On 27 December 2008 were found online for a virtual march: in eleven thousand have changed their profile by adding photos while breastfeeding, one or more children. And at the same time, those who have reached Palo Alto, headquarters of Facebook, a breast mass in front of the home. In those same hours, so many images 'obscene' but disappeared from the site. So the angry moms have opened a website where they publish all the photos censored. Increasing by the hour. "We ask ourselves - says Kelly Romania - what's so obscene to show a mother nursing a baby. We have the right to show our children eat while breastfeeding, just like the ones that suck the bottle. " But Schnitt FACEBOOK reply: "We will intervene only on reports of others who have complained." And then he adds, "usually allow pictures of breastfeeding mothers," is just a matter of quantity. 'Naked breasts, nipple and areola with' too much nudity all together. Many images show attacked huge tits with more children at one time. Some might not like so much ostentation. The policy is shared on Facebook, MySpace as well: there is also censored and removed photos too explicit and "nude."
This incident indicates very clearly that the real problem is the use of the medium: in effect, or better in ways, which we attribute to our presence on the Net senses that would conflict with those who can assume the role of censor, pre-defining, in the purest spirit Taylorist, the limits within which certain meanings are eligible and other no. Quite different from the perspective of humanistic management, under which, if we indicate how to live in an ethical, genuine and active contemporaneity, the directions in the diffuse reflection on the goals that the social organization which we adhere and means must be asked to pursue them, in shared responsibility for its own purposes even if not strictly economic, which becomes nell'autosviluppo care for others. A process-level social reflexivity must be based on a thorough individual. No coincidence that the act of writing, document, preserve what was said lived in history as the highest manifestation of the perception of its subjectual. In this respect, we have observed in the Manifesto of humanistic management, there is more to learn from one page of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, or those "diaries" (or more precisely, CMS, Content Management Systems) which are individual and collective current blog on the Internet, a thousand volumes of traditional management literature.
However, today's identity is characterized by an excess of the figure of the ego. People want to live no more than one life but many lives together. And 'the metaphor of the remote control. Everyone wants to live together as many experiences as there are TV channels and seeing them all jump from one to another. The person is alive because a state of endemic instability, the identity is in constant repetition, fragmented membership in different, often overlapping, sometimes contradictory. The identity, as we already recalled Salinas and Borges, is varied as a maze where you have to know how to guide: or, rather, it is necessary to build every day, choosing from different alternatives, but often all deserve to be pursued, without one exclude the other. Because, under the exclusion, it may not be anything in the center of the labyrinth. The program for the blog and thus become the archetypes of the life you want. One in which everything is significant because the important thing is not individual programs or individual "post", but that every individual produces the assembly of his experiences. Therefore, the risk related to the use analog (in the sense that I tried to explain above) of the new technologies of communication and information is that it may lead to the loss of more authentic self, one's own uniqueness, mingled with some nickname or avatar where we assume a fictitious identity.
Now, Social networking sites like Facebook, if they manage to escape the opposite extremes on the digital leveling out "purely real" on the one hand, and the obsessive compulsion to appear to everyone and everywhere and always-still-in its size brighter, Apollonian and superficial, on the other, resulting in the entropy of any real meaning can offer everyone the opportunity to deepen and articulate their expressive model. Think of Homer will have access to an electronic memory, the compositional model based on assembly of standard blocks could be raised to higher levels of complexity and all the theoretically possible combinations provided the model could be explored. And this does not violate the autonomy of the author: each author is himself free to "close" the text as he wishes: that of understanding, or to exclude, narrative materials and reading tracks. In short, using a word processor, Homer, Dante and Proust as he should be available to a wider range of materials consistent with its project, a wider repertoire of connections between the elements, without which it would be to remove the right to choosing, crafting a final editing, some material, some links. That is the analogy: as the author sees improved from information technology to its creative autonomy, so does the manager. The information and knowledge are no longer closed in procedures, but plastically made available to the decision maker. The creator of worlds. Individuality, the multi-individually, in both cases increased by technological prosthesis.
