Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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Incommensurability
At this stage in the development of the analysis of the thinking actor I would like to make a…
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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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Collaborating in on-and offline environments
In organizing the networked events people with different skills and different technologies had to…
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Human dignity as a tool for survival
Inspired by Damasio, I would argue that the UDHR can also be read as a tool for achieving the well
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Beneficial for life and detrimental for life
Damasio describes how things that happen to a human being are labelled in two basic ways in our…
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Local and tacit knowledge
A second issue that demands attention when discussing the cognitive clash in mediated presence…
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Orchestrating chaos
To be able to gather the crucial network, I looked for 'the third point' in the conferences I…
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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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Connecting time
'Connecting time' is an issue in all three emails. The first Hans was too ill to log on one day
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Sketch of the network
The 0+Network itself and all the communication and information it facilitated does not exist…
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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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Mediating context
Mediated presence requires focused attention, IJsselsteijn argues (IJsselsteijn 2005). This was…
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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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Personal timezones
In the first case study I elaborated upon 'personal time zones' caused by habits and geographical…
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Meeting in Natural Presence
The effect of people meeting each other, influencing each other's lives and each other's work, is…