Interruptions: Reconsidering the Immaterial in Human Engagements with Technology
This paper explores conceptions of the immaterial in human engagements with technology and technological systems. It employs two different theories of interruption, one technical and the other philosophical, as a means to examine the renegotiations of human-technology relationships that occur when a...
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| author | Sandry, Eleanor Willson, Michele |
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| description | This paper explores conceptions of the immaterial in human engagements with technology and technological systems. It employs two different theories of interruption, one technical and the other philosophical, as a means to examine the renegotiations of human-technology relationships that occur when a system, previously considered immaterial and judged inconsequential, reveals itself as significant. Two examples, the Millennium bug and Facebook’s provision of Open Graph, are used to illustrate people’s sudden recognition of the operation of underlying technological systems. This paper considers these moments as interruptions in order not only to analyse people’s reappraisal of the perceived immateriality of the technologies, but also to emphasise the value of recognising their consequence and apparent agency. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-243592017-01-30T12:42:30Z Interruptions: Reconsidering the Immaterial in Human Engagements with Technology Sandry, Eleanor Willson, Michele This paper explores conceptions of the immaterial in human engagements with technology and technological systems. It employs two different theories of interruption, one technical and the other philosophical, as a means to examine the renegotiations of human-technology relationships that occur when a system, previously considered immaterial and judged inconsequential, reveals itself as significant. Two examples, the Millennium bug and Facebook’s provision of Open Graph, are used to illustrate people’s sudden recognition of the operation of underlying technological systems. This paper considers these moments as interruptions in order not only to analyse people’s reappraisal of the perceived immateriality of the technologies, but also to emphasise the value of recognising their consequence and apparent agency. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24359 http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/25/05.shtml Published by the Editorial Committee of Transformations Journal fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Sandry, Eleanor Willson, Michele Interruptions: Reconsidering the Immaterial in Human Engagements with Technology |
| title | Interruptions: Reconsidering the Immaterial in Human Engagements with Technology |
| title_full | Interruptions: Reconsidering the Immaterial in Human Engagements with Technology |
| title_fullStr | Interruptions: Reconsidering the Immaterial in Human Engagements with Technology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interruptions: Reconsidering the Immaterial in Human Engagements with Technology |
| title_short | Interruptions: Reconsidering the Immaterial in Human Engagements with Technology |
| title_sort | interruptions: reconsidering the immaterial in human engagements with technology |
| url | http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/25/05.shtml http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24359 |