Environmental Interaction
When human beings work with material, shape material, the material shapes them at the same time. The potter centres the clay and the clay centrs the potter. While operating technology, technology affcets human beings as well. The mobile phone for example changed human decision behaviour. Interacting with material, including interaction with technology, shapes human beings and influences their spatiotemporal trajectories up to the point that others recognize them. In communities of practice the recognizing of spatiotemporal trajectries is a requirement for developing shared concepts out of which language emerges.
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Rules of the game
In 1938, Johan Huizinga wrote his book Homo Ludens. In this book, he claims that play is an…
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De Amstel Verandert (www.deamstelverandert.nl)
On the De Amstel Verandert website (translation: The Amstel River in change), one can propose his…
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Breda-Morgen (www.breda-morgen.nl)
This project is an interactive site from and for the citizens of Breda. The goal is to connect…
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Hitch-hiking is an act of mutual trust
In april 2010, I returned home from a study trip to Zürich, Switzerland. Due to the…
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Modern democracy needs public participation
Trust is one of the principal requirements for a stable society (Markova and Gillespie 2008). In…
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Negotiation and agency in an online world
People manage their identity online, and this is often time consuming. Professional life depends…
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From transactions to interaction
In theatre, the distinction is made between actions and activities. Actions affect identity and…
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How we interact with each other and systems
When discussing communities of people and systems, a distinction has to be made between ‘use’ and…
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Words that act
The experience of Facebook is difficult to communicate to someone who has never experienced…
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Sense of place
Mediated communication is very effective because representations and shared references do help…
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Realities of place
Place includes social, economical, ecological, social, cultural and historical realities: they are…
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Time is the beholder of trust
Where before place was often the beholder of trust, in online communication, time has become the…
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Synchronization of rhythms is essential for witnessing to take place
In the experience of people, different realities merge biological, social and technological. The…
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Rhythm in online and mediated environments
Qualities in online environments are different from the qualities in face-to-face environments. For…
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Perception and representation
Online, there is hegemony of text. Existence on the Internet only occurs in the infrastructure of…
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Knowledge and experience
Today human being’s experience evolves in a complex combination of biological and social systems