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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Realities of place
Place includes social, economical, ecological, social, cultural and historical realities: they are…
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Time is the beholder of trust
Where before place was often the beholder of trust, in online communication, time has become the…
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Synchronization of rhythms is essential for witnessing to take place
In the experience of people, different realities merge biological, social and technological. The…
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Rhythm in online and mediated environments
Qualities in online environments are different from the qualities in face-to-face environments. For…
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Size of networks
Having witnessed the IT development in Bangalore since the 1950s, Geetha Narayanan argues that it…
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Perception and representation
Online, there is hegemony of text. Existence on the Internet only occurs in the infrastructure of…
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Systems design and emergence
The technological systems that humans have developed in the last 80,000 years have been made…
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Adaptation and personal experience
Human beings adapt to new power and presence configurations, but also in these new configurations…
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Communication and adaptation
Many organizations and business train their employees in global communications skills in which the…
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Requirements to establish trust in a technology environment
To establish trust in a technology environment is complex.
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Influence and participation
Surveillance and identification technologies deeply influence today’s society. Large quantities of…
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Witnessing of systems: systems do not witness people, people witness systems
For most people, there is a great discrepancy between perceiving and understanding computers. Many…
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Human agency and system design
Seeking well-being and survival, human beings in technological environments are ‘thinking actors’:…
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Quality of an object
What is the quality of an object? Let us be more specific: how do we define the quality of an…
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Landscapes
Where am I? It looks like Siberia, everything is white, no it must be the Carribean, colors ranging…