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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Ignorance & perception versus reality & analysis
When downloading an Open Source patch, trust is mediated through open source software, open…
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Autonomous Systems implicated in the business of authenticity and trust
Abraham argues that Autonomous Systems consolidate human behaviour and change human behaviour. They…
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Performance and reputation
The building of software is all publicised. Therefore in an Open Source community one works for an…
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Authenticity in the infrastructure of knowledge
Presence and trust raise the issue of authenticity. Online there is hegemony of text. Existence on…
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Transactions online prove existence
Sunil Abraham argues that an individual exists online because of transactions online, not because…
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Decent systems under the rule of law
Human beings negotiate between inner values and external values. Like the law, also system…
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Common frame in emotional realm
As a judge one merely checks the attitude of a witness. The witness attitude makes the difference…
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Physical presence is necessary, technology creates a void
Physical presence is necessary when assessing the witness contribution to the search of the truth.
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Being witness is a formal position
Being a witness is a formal position in the process of law. To accept being a witness is a…
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Performance as inner drive
Performance is always based on and limited to a specific application of systems as it is for humans.
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Meaning and syntax of relations
Humans have relations on many levels and the same goes for computers. But if systems want to reason…
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Centre is where sense emerges
When asked about the story of the potter who gets centred by the wheel, who creates a centred pot
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Words and deeds
Using language in a computer environment is one of the ways to communicate with the computer itself.
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Witnessing systems is fun
Human beings can only witness the system by the grace of the designers: the error-logs and pop-up…
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Mapping values
Values within the design of distributed systems are a push and pull between transparency
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Basic trust is needed
In distributed environments the issue of trust is significant. Therefore a distinction is made…