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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Atmosphere
In my memory, I can still see waves of audiences moving through the building during those three…
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The succes of the 0+Ball
In a series of interviews on the history of the HIV Vereniging and HIVnet, which were published…
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PRESS
The 0+Ball was hardly covered by the press. There were two articles in Dutch weekly magazines, in…
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Different discourses
When inviting a diverse group of people and professionals to collaborate, the issue of conveying…
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Creating by presenting
In March and April 1990 we approached many people and organizations and we found that after a good…
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DECIDING TO DO IT: FINDING THE CONTEXT (March 1990)
The text of the proposal was used to inform and connect with an initial group of people around us
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The concept evolves from conversation
In the context of absence, presence becomes a conscious experience. Having to face death, life…
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ACT UP
ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power, which started in the USA in 1987, had grown to be a…
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1990: VI International Conference on AIDS
In June 1990 the VI International Conference on AIDS was to be held in San Francisco. This is the…
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Skills impact identity
Before the GHP, Paradiso had an Ethernet installed in the building, at the time this was already…
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Technological literacy
The people who were reporting in the edit group were all social scientists and/or journalists. The…
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No unity of time, place and action
In the variety of cultures humankind has developed many strategies for assessing the truth. Many…
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Interfacing complexity
An interesting example, which underscores the need for social interfaces to convey trust in…
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Connections are real
Once the programme had been drawn up, we had to reach out for our audience. It is a question of…
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It is a product and a process
The fact that I called this section trustworthiness instead of just trust implies an interaction.
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Confusion between trusting humans and/or machines
This trustworthiness becomes even more important when one wants to work together online, make live…