User:AvitalB/thesis

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Research, thoughts and more

In summer I deleted facebook and instagram apps from my phone. I felt the constant scroll through different feeds is making me anxious and depressed. At first it was very liberating and I found myself having more time to do other things. Then it became lonely- I realised that a lot of people were communicating with me just when I was posting snippets from my life (mostly instagram stories). Apparently, when you live in a different country then most of your friends if they don't have a reminder of you being through social media, they don't contact you as much. I began to think about the interfaces around me and how they make me feel and how my mood depends on them. The word interface can mean many things: screens, apps, software, operation systems. It's the GUI that we interact with and it's the core concepts of the digital products we use. I often feel manipulated, most of the time too indifferent to do anything with it.

Guiding terms

  • Relationship
  • Online behaviour
  • Devices

Optional techniques

  • Bot interaction
  • Chat
  • Interactive storytelling


Resources

Books

  • Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism / Geert Lovink- The internet is effecting out emotions, behaviour and mindset
  • Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Place / Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves
  • The Second Self / Sherry Turkle
  • Alone Together / Sherry Turkle
  • Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace / Janet H. Murray
  • Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation / Joseph Weizenbaum

Articles/Journals

Personas

Projects

Terms

  • Plan 9- developed by Bell Labs to replace Unix with the concept of decentralised operating systems