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While the network was down, Lee Felsenstein gave his keynote speech about the computer as a tool for democracy, emphasizing the quality ...
The 'edit group' was located in a dressing room next to the server room and had regular problems posting its work on the GHP net. The ...
proposal, argument, conclusion
In design trajectories the formulation of design requirements is a crucial phase. In the design requirements the formulation takes place ...
The culture and tradition of Paradiso guarantee a quality and a certain edge. As a producer I would use the fact that Paradiso is ...
Before analysing the case studies I was inclined to think that we, as human beings, were dealing with multiple presences that each have ...
In the Wau-Pengo debate Pengo argued that the difference between intelligence and commercial enterprise was not that great. The story of ...
description, personal history, collective history, question
A last crucial influence that I will discuss in my approach and my understanding of the research question "How to design presence ...
description, argument, parresia
For survival, the blurring between real and unreal situations is problematic at first sight. When one needs to act for survival one has ...
description, methodology, subjective, key-informants, parresia, techno-biography, text laboratory
Using the text as the laboratory one does need to find cues for validity though. While writing I have focused on creating inner validity ...
Before describing the cases I will first sketch the context in which they were conceived. Each case study is what I will call a ...
description, methodology, collective history
When creating a networked event, one is also designing time. Dramatic events change our sense of time. A minute of pain or a minute of a ...
In the Netherlands in 2006 during the national elections, all voters were supposed to cast their vote by computer. Hackers, among them ...
methodology, specific, theory
The study "Presence and the Design of Trust" wants to explore the influence of technology on the social structures that evolve ...
Physical clashes between intention and realization involve all levels of consciousness. In mediated presence these are not necessarily ...
The notion of 'social interface' was elaborated upon at Performing Arts Labs (UK) in 1994. Performing Arts Labs (PAL) had invited about ...
description, methodology, collective history
Military research into presence has to be mentioned here first, even though I do not intend to elaborate upon it. That would require ...
The orchestration of 'global' time lines is a very hard to conceive issue (Achterhuis 2003), Especially when bio-rhythm's, which can not ...
description, concept, personal history
Developments in media and modern art, including the performing arts, deeply influence how the visitors will perceive and experience the ...
In natural presence, being a witness includes having a responsibility for what happens subsequently and people sense this. In mediated ...
description, collective history, general history
In June 1990 the VI International Conference on AIDS was to be held in San Francisco. This is the annual conference at which scientists, ...
methodology, theory, text laboratory
The term ‘text laboratory’ is attractive for describing the work that was carried out in this research project. This methodology is ...
The first story is about a robot dog that was made In Sony's Research Lab in Paris in 2001. Because the robot dog does not mediate the ...
description, concept, argument
concept, argument, conclusion, techno-biography
In all three emails nobody writes about the computer as a hurdle to overcome. Apparently computer savvy-ness was not an issue anymore. ...
definition, specific
The word 'trust' in the title of the dissertation points to the qualitative standards for the settings of social interaction I intend to ...
In the afternoon, while Paradiso was filled with hackers having a great time, the edit group and some other people gathered to draw up ...
concept, argument, conclusion
The fact that I called this section trustworthiness instead of just trust implies an interaction. Trust is not a given, it is something ...
concept, argument, theory
In Science and Technology Studies the complexity of such arrangements in which nature, culture and technology are deeply interwoven, is ...
description, citation, argument, general history
Digital behaviour is also monitored. By gathering and analysing server information the behaviour and the actions of online identities ...
In his account of these demonstrations Rop Gonggrijp reported that the amazing feature of these networks is that people, who are ...
The morning was supposed to be taken up with an in depth talk by Professor Hamelink, Professor Boafo and their students about the ...
proposal, argument, theory
Every YUTPA possesses possibilities for action and distinct possibilities for feedback that designers can use. Also, an action in one ...
description, collective history, general history
Paradiso is a former church in the centre of Amsterdam, which was squatted in 1968 note 82 . Since the early days music and debate from ...
Through mediating presence one can reach out to another human being in different time/space configurations, which a meeting in natural ...
description, methodology, specific
In 1983 Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at the University of Berkeley in which he addressed the old Greek idea of Parresia for ...
description, argument, theory
Another element in thinking about natural presence in modern life is elaborated upon by Donna Haraway. She argues that technologies have ...
description, methodology, key-informants, conclusion, parresia, techno-biography, text laboratory
It has been suggested by Latour that the use of exquisite language will trigger a more eloquent use of the text laboratory as a ...
The two events are well documented in the sense that the proceedings were made available based on the audio material (Riemens 1989, ...
description, concept, argument
When designing a party, an event, or an application simple questions become hugely important: how to enter, how to identify, how to ...
Another example of a need to think different about the use of technology was posed to me by Heleen Riper, who was co-producer of the ...
definition, methodology, specific
This is an exploratory case study in which two networked events that took place in Amsterdam in 1989 and 1990 will be analysed. A ...
For these reasons I would argue that the physical impact of the clash between intention and realization in mediated presence is not as ...
argument, conclusion, theory
In the variety of cultures humankind has developed many strategies for assessing the truth. Many are based on the unity of time, place, ...
description, proposal, theory
In this section I want to argue that the way we are witnessed and witness other people, deeply influences the perception of our ...
description, methodology, collective history
In the media labs of large technological corporations around the world, and especially and foremost in the USA, the mediation of ...
The possibility of mediated social interaction has even more deep consequences for personal time zones when people work in, or with, ...
description, collective history
A place like Paradiso is a continually formative influence on people. I personally learned a tremendous amount, but also these events ...
When I am confronted by a stranger on my path, I have to know whether he is really there and whether he will attack me or not. I have to ...
In order to address the previously formulated intentions this study has to be an exploratory study, since a theory about the social ...
description, collective history, techno-biography
The 0+Network itself and all the communication and information it facilitated does not exist anymore. Only some printed emails and ...
Diagram 3: What is communicated in which way via which medium, and how these influence each other, is often unclear.
description, collective history
To create good infrastructures is an art in itself. It requires a lot of technical insights about technology, finance and the behaviour ...
concept, argument, theory
Processes of purification and mediation occur in every YUTPA because all YUTPA's also function in the context of one another. In his ...
proposal, methodology, specific
While conducting the research I found that I needed to make trust operational from the pragmatic perspective of individual human beings. ...
At four o'clock that afternoon we received a telegram announcing that all telephone lines in Paradiso would be shut down, because we had ...
description, argument, subjective, collective history
Once the programme had been drawn up, we had to reach out for our audience. It is a question of finding the right tone in the right ...
description, concept
Among the crowds that characterize the many urban environments we distinguish 'the mass' and 'people we know'. We perceive the presence ...
description, argument
Internet facilitates the storage and exchange of text, images, sound, music, film, radio and live broadcasts. With over one billion ...
In the afternoon several workshops took place about how to make an independent computer network, about viruses and viral networks, about ...
description, argument, collective history, key-informants
The first day was "To byte or not to byte", about the relationship between man and machine . An animation of Max Headroom ...
proposal, argument, theory
The claim for the global outreach of science and technology is criticized by Donna Haraway in her plea for 'situated knowledge': "I ...
description, concept, proposal, methodology, collective history
To understand why certain programmes are successful I turn to the distinction that is made between space and place in the variety of ...
Through witnessing each other, in mediated and in natural presence, people construct shared realities. Witnessing in natural presence ...
description, methodology, personal history, key-informants, theory
In Science and Technology Studies (STS) actors are taken extremely seriously and are often the centre of attention in a study. But in ...
concept, argument, general history, theory
Haraway's insights imply consequences for the sense of presence on an even deeper level. In the work of Haraway, and others like Judith ...
description, argument, general history
techno-biography
When reading these messages, the techno-biographical layer of this research calls for attention. These emails make me shiver; a feeling ...
Around 1000 people took part in each of the events. Each event used on and offline communication in connection with one another. The two ...
description, personal history, collective history, techno-biography
The source material for this case study consists of several kinds of publications. There are the proceedings, published by Paradiso and ...
The last example I want to elaborate upon concerns the Grameen Bank, the first bank that introduced micro-credits. Professor Muhammad ...
description, methodology, specific, techno-biography, text laboratory
Nevertheless, the human reality that is facilitated by technology is of such a complex nature that a clear understanding of its effect ...
description, collective history
People who entered Paradiso were already making a statement by entering the building. This was made clear by a huge banner attached to ...
In the reflections on the Galactic Hacker Party the conveying of trust between people in natural presence and in mediated presence, and ...
An interesting example, which underscores the need for social interfaces to convey trust in mediated environments, is a current policy ...