We; Visualised

A system map that explores where we stand in the social media economy,
and explains how my thesis artefacts fit into the contemporary cyber world.

for decades…

We've been hearing and seeing evidence of clothing sweatshops in the developing countries. The product I'm writing my statement on was made by a worker in China, who isn't paid enough but is hired because the company would like to retain its profit margins. And everything that we use in our everyday— privileged —lives are made by underpaid people in the developing countries, but we very conveniently turn the other way.

So, for a change, turn towards the epistemological shift of the cyberspace, of the post-inversion era.

Technology, like fashion, relies on the masses of the developing nations. As users and as their underpaid workers who make fake profiles and engage in content generation. Different to the nature of clothing sweatshops, tech sweatshops are filled with technologically skilled individuals who explore this grey area as an opportunity. They understand that making fake profiles as a job can create confusion and they hide away in unmonitored corners of their city and countries. Though, its not the fake profiles but the way they are used that makes a difference between a non-existent human and trolls. I attempted 13 times to make a fake profile on twitter, and currently have 4 or 5 active profiles, these entities are not trolls, they are the displaced weight of algorithms. I can't begin to explain how social media companies benefit and also get damaged by these ent All this information is out there, just search for Click Farms, Cambridge Analytica, or anything Trump. But, with my thesis, I want to focus on the fact that click farms are footprints towards counter-colonisation in the age of neocolonialism; where the developing world has logistical resources, mass, and an understanding of the grey fabric of the world to establish its technological power.