Body sense
Human beings experience life in and through their bodies; With the body we are born and some time later die. The body, often before our consciousness realizes, registers how we are, where we are and what is beneficial or detrimental to us. In mediated presence, which is also dependent on the body, such physical cues are not easily available. Nevertheless, technology invaded human perception of the world around and even of the self. Because the body is the instrument that records it all, because it manifests our mortality and because it's sense for what is good or bad for us is so refined, physical presence is needed when issues of ethical nature are at stake.
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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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Watching my folks, being somewhat oblivious to the camera
I have a folder on my computer filled with screenshots that I take whilst skyping my folks. In the…
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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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Dynamical hierarchy in an engineered ‘free’ space
Upadhya’s observation is that every project faces a crisis at some point. And often it is a problem…
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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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Cross cultural communication gaps
In the IT industry people talk about ‘becoming global’, referring to a meaning of the word ‘global’…
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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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Monitoring of workflow
Only after a considerable amount of work in which trust is built through a rigorous monitoring and…
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Outsourcing industry
Dr. Carol Upadhya and colleagues have conducted a considerable number of interviews in India’s IT…
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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…
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All that matters to a specific place
Dinesh and his team decided that because of these developments it did not make sense anymore to…
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Politics of presence in rehabilitation phase
Even in times of crisis reputation building is very important, more important than collaborating in…
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Reputation towards funders
A few months later, when the rebuild phase was getting into consolidation mode, the large Non…
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Tsunami 2004: Who’s doing What and Where
When the Tsunami hit on the 26th of December 2004, Dinesh was taking some relaxed time close to one…
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Utility is window to the world
The effect of this flow between different realities became very clear for Bawa when the state of…
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Real and virtual flows
In another project Bawa was involved in, the government wanted to offer civic services through an…