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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Blurring You and not-You
The blurring between You and not-You creates confusions as well as solutions. In not-You spaces…
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Trust and witnessed presence
When people witness each other in natural and in mediated presence, the shared experience becomes…
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Trust and mediated presence
Conveying trustworthiness is crucial when working together online. The design of presence, when and…
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An act is not true or false
At the end of his life Kuhn analysed, reflected and explored still further. Inspired by the way the…
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Meta-cognitive skills, Project management & Boundary Objects
When the writer and the printer discuss their shared product, which is the result of both their…
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Contextual Reflexivity
In 1989 and 1990 the basic structures for producing networked events were not clear at all. I…
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Conversation
People, who are not part of a profession, hardly ever realize how thinking is a part of everyday…
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Enacting identity
A fourth consequence of the cognitive clash between intention and realization in mediated presence…
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Causality
Once the work has been done a confrontation follows regarding the costs of the work (personal and…
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Interface and the state of the actor
When considering the physical clash between intention and realization in mediated presence, the…
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Experience changes physical being
The fact that experiences change children’s physical well–being has been agreed on in child…
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Catharsis is local
Apart from the radio and the network, which will be discussed below, we also highlighted the…
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Aids Info Special and SF Chronicle
Since there would be so much 'action' in San Francisco, both in the streets with ACT NOW and in the…
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Orchestrating contributions and audiences
Throughout the months of May and June many commitments were met: raising the funds from the…
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Different discourses
When inviting a diverse group of people and professionals to collaborate, the issue of conveying…
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Creating by presenting
In March and April 1990 we approached many people and organizations and we found that after a good…