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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I and Thou, You and not-You
In this section I want to argue that the way we are witnessed and witness other people, deeply…
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The 'other' changes shape
I become more aware of my presence in the world because I notice that another person perceives my…
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Civil and Criminal law
All societies, even all groups, invent rules by which they channel the behaviour of their…
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People I know and people I do not know
Among the crowds that characterize the many urban environments we distinguish 'the mass' and…
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To settle for certain behaviour
The concept of media schemata is crucial for research into the domain of designing presence in…
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Time, place, social group and culture determine schemata
In Science and Technology Studies the complexity of such arrangements in which nature, culture and…
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To be raised by a computer
The last story I want to share in this section poses the question of whether there is a distinction…
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AIBO, the robotdog
The first story is about a robot dog that was made In Sony's Research Lab in Paris in 2001. Because…
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Love on the Internet
A second story I want to share is about two people communicating with each other via Internet.
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Real versus unreal
In 1935 Walter Benjamin wrote the first draft of his essay on 'Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner…
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Enacting 'being alive'
Haraway's insights imply consequences for the sense of presence on an even deeper level. In the…
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A stranger on my path
When I am confronted by a stranger on my path, I have to know whether he is really there and…
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The sense of presence is part of human evolution
Riva, Waterworth and Waterworth were inspired by Damasio in their proposal for a deeper…
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The layers of presence
In 2004 an amazing article was written, 'The Layers of Presence: A Bio-cultural Approach to…
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Being alive
People who have died can have all sorts of presences in the variety of cultures that the human race…
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A science of trade-offs
Wijnand IJsselsteijn, researcher at TU Eindhoven, has been involved with the European Presence…