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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Tacit trust IRL
At the GHP I was actually surprised so many times by the trust people placed in each other, which…
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Intercultural links, flaws and sensitivity online
One thing that did not take place at the GHP was a videoconference between Paradiso and Siggraph in…
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3 AUGUST 1989: THE HACKER IN THE LION'S DEN
The second day at the GHP focused on "$$, secrets & the right to information". note 116 The three
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Nodes
In Wellington New Zealand a group of about 30 people gathered for all three days. They had…
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Infrastructure
In the months following these announcements many connections were made, people approached us and we…
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Alternative use of technology
The same week a more formal Paradiso press release concerning the ICATA '89 stated the following:
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Press
In the press the issues of the new computer era, which were raised by the GHP, were sketched…
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Designing time
When creating a networked event, one is also designing time. Dramatic events change our sense of…
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To evaluate, learn and distribute by sensing
The way a networked event, which happens in the public domain, is evaluated is very different to…
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Formulated perception in historical context
For such political spaces to work they have to give people an experience, as was my conviction in…
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Formal and informal encounters
It is like organizing a party. The infrastructure has to be there, one can put a lot of care into…
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Influenced by the media-landscape
Developments in media and modern art, including the performing arts, deeply influence how the…
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Engineering space into place
To understand why certain programmes are successful I turn to the distinction that is made between…
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A new form of public sphere
The GHP and the 0+Ball were two of the first events in a range of gatherings, and an inspiration to…
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Dutch politics
Amsterdam, the capital of the social democracy of the Netherlands, had a marked climate of…
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Human Rights and the Internet
“The 20th century will be known both for its commitment to human rights and for the ongoing…