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

[Dan Perkel]

Hi David,
McCarthy and Wright's Technology as Experience (2004) may be helpful  
in this regard. They don't take a phenomenological approach, per se,  
but they do comment on prior phenomenological approaches (as well as  
others, so this book might point you in directions you want to go) as  
well as introduce an interesting take on the notion of "experience."

http://www.amazon.com/Technology-as-Experience-John-McCarthy/dp/ 
0262633558/ref=sr_1_2/103-5114096-0795858? 
ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190137635&sr=8-2

Regards,
Dan


Dan Perkel
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University of California, Berkeley
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On Sep 18, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Alecea Standlee wrote:

> David,
> I wonder if the literature on anonymity, flaming,trolls etc might  
> be a place to start.
>
> -A
>
> David Brake <d.r.brake at lse.ac.uk> wrote: 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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