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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No possibility of a shared meaning
Aditya Dev Sood argues that a user is someone who is aware of the instrumentality of his or her…
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Networks are not viable
The complexity paradigm of self-organization, complexity, co-evolution, adaptation, all words that…
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Systems of knowledge
Geetha Narayanan argues it is time to question our systems of knowledge. Professional life gets…
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Feminine transformation
Narayanan expects that a huge feminine gender based transformation will take place in India over…
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Humanness at the centre
When suggesting that technology actually functions as a social engineering tool, Narayanan…
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Failing is crucial
The learning environment of Srishti is an open environment; always in a state of flux, there is a…
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Social use of technology
Geetha Narayanan has lived in Bangalore since the 50’s and has witnessed how public funding in the…
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Media governance
Information and communication technologies function in structures of governance. There is the…
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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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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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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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Monitoring of workflow
Only after a considerable amount of work in which trust is built through a rigorous monitoring and…