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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Media governance
Information and communication technologies function in structures of governance. There is the…
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Adaptation processes
Because people use technology devices, they also adapt to them. In the last hundred years have…
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Change in transaction
Parthasarathi’s research suggests that in live performances early 20th century in India the…
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Relation between performer and listener
Technology deeply influences how people can witness each other and experience each other’s presence.
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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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Need to meet: Presence and Absence
As a sociologist going into all these companies, it is interesting for Upadhya to think about…
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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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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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Seemingly flat and open structures
When inquiring about the nature of the work, very few people are self-conscious and can articulate…
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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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Being Indian, yet a global employee
Big Indian outsourcing companies like WIPRO, Infosys, TCS have developed their own models and they…