Communion
When human beings connect with each other or with other natural and intelligent life forms like animals or trees for example, there is the possibility of a shared meaning. When being in a relation in which a shared meaning is emerging, this fundamentally qualifies the relation. Being in communion with another being affects the performance of presence and the negotiation of trust fundamentally.
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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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Not-You is information (biased or not)
I can be with my lover, leave the house and pass a 'bump' and not even notice this person. Where…
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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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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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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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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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Patterns between presence and absence
In the patterns of presence and absence in the variety of mediated and unmediated forms, people…
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Techno-biography
In Science and Technology Studies (STS) actors are taken extremely seriously and are often the…
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Parresia
In 1983 Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at the University of Berkeley in which he…
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Shared understanding and hard facts
In 1999 I started working for the University of Professional Education in Amsterdam and through…
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Demo or die
While I was associated and involved with Internet design over the last 15 years I observed hype…
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'Social theory' provides context
The study "Presence and the Design of Trust" wants to explore the influence of technology on the…
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Two case studies of two networked events
This is an exploratory case study in which two networked events that took place in Amsterdam in…