[Air-L] Literature wanted: what does it feel like to use a computer?

elw at stderr.org elw at stderr.org
Tue Sep 18 06:46:15 PDT 2007




I'd suggest that you start with Sherry Turkle's _The Second Self_ - I'd 
think that that book, with all of its discussion of how we conceptualize 
the computer as tool and otherwise, would be the eventual lynchpin of 
whatever argument you're constructing, or at least on abutting it...

--elijah


On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, David Brake wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:36:44 +0100
> From: David Brake <d.r.brake at lse.ac.uk>
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> Subject: [Air-L] Literature wanted: what does it feel like to use a computer?
> 
> I presume there is literature out there taking a phenomenological
> view of what using a computer feels like but I am not sure where to
> start looking. I hope to use it to buttress a hunch I have about why
> people seem to have trouble in managing public vs private space
> online. My feeling is that its because typing stuff into a computer
> just doesnt feel like you're addressing a large crowd at that moment
> - it feels like you are talking to yourself (unless you are
> addressing it to particular named other people who you can then
> visualise). One can make a similar point about the long life of blog
> postings. They feel conversational, not like having something
> published and indexed.
>
> Anyway given this example I hope you can see the kind of literature
> which might help here. Any ideas? If not of texts directly about the
> experience of using a computer then perhaps just the best literature
> to apply to approach the subject generally. Schutz?
>
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