More-than-Human Contact, Conspicuous Mobility, and the Digital Frontier
Spatio-Temporal Constraints on Social Networks Workshop, University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Spatial Studies, 13-14 December 2010
Matthew Wilson
“Not only have social networking technologies provided alternative modes of interaction among individuals, but these technologies are increasingly shifting more traditional ways in which individuals interact in everyday life. This has implications for human contact, and therefore impacts all aspects of contemporary social life—government, politics, the interpersonal, kinship, work environments, artistic expression, health and wellness, informational media, entertainment, etc. A “more-than-human contact” has emerged, where mediation has become the norm, where the concept of “human-computer-human interaction” is excessively repetitive. Human interaction is always already digitally mediated.”
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