Communion
When human beings connect with each other or with other natural and intelligent life forms like animals or trees for example, there is the possibility of a shared meaning. When being in a relation in which a shared meaning is emerging, this fundamentally qualifies the relation. Being in communion with another being affects the performance of presence and the negotiation of trust fundamentally.
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Appropriate levels of empathy with user
Healthy organizations ensure that user-centred thinking exists within the community of engineers
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Infrastructure and human beings adapt
The technological systems that humans have developed in the last 80,000 years have been possible by…
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No possibility of a shared meaning
Aditya Dev Sood argues that a user is someone who is aware of the instrumentality of his or her…
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Networks are not viable
The complexity paradigm of self-organization, complexity, co-evolution, adaptation, all words that…
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Systems of knowledge
Geetha Narayanan argues it is time to question our systems of knowledge. Professional life gets…
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Feminine transformation
Narayanan expects that a huge feminine gender based transformation will take place in India over…
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Humanness at the centre
When suggesting that technology actually functions as a social engineering tool, Narayanan…
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Failing is crucial
The learning environment of Srishti is an open environment; always in a state of flux, there is a…
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Media governance
Information and communication technologies function in structures of governance. There is the…
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Change in transaction
Parthasarathi’s research suggests that in live performances early 20th century in India the…
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Presence is a universal concept, witnessing is not
When transposing a concept like Witnessed Presence from one culture to another some tuning is…
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Staged performance
In her research Upadhya found that in the IT industry a very specific kind of personal performance…
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Informal knowledge sharing in a strong competitive environment
In Upadhya’s research many people commented about the fact that there is a lot of reaching out in…
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Low trust dynamic
Upadhya describes the dynamic as follows: “Because of cultural stereotypes it is implied that there…
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Being Indian, yet a global employee
Big Indian outsourcing companies like WIPRO, Infosys, TCS have developed their own models and they…
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Loose network during relief phase
Dinesh argues that it is very hard to say that a system can be used during the relief; maybe…