“What else is there…?”: reporting meditations in experiential computing

Bødker, Mads

doi:10.1057/s41303-017-0041-6

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“…As such, it can be described as inclusive in terms of data sources and generative in terms of hypotheses and theories. As such, CIT connects clearly to what Bødker refers to as meditations [4]-a form of affective introspection that supports the felt-life experience of users, particularly in relation to everyday (technologyrich) situations.…”

Section: Participants and Method: The Critical Incident Techniquementioning

confidence: 89%

“…The surfacing (and design) of such infrastructural alternatives is an important task and one which can be supported by the analysis of digital breakdowns. Because, as mentioned previously, the breakdown is one central way in which infrastructural norms comes to the surface [4,5,17,18].…”

Section: Previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…Meditations as an everyday research approach can help researchers become attentive to new research opportunities inside the setting of their own lives. In such situations, deeply personal and often incidental or serendipitous experiences may become visceral, sensed and reflective through introspection and writing as a form of inquiry [4]. This compels, from both the analyst and the participant user, to be sensitive to their own affects, to contemplate on their actions and reactions and to be considerate in relation to how feelings and sympathies develop over time.…”

Section: Participants and Method: The Critical Incident Techniquementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this case, digital failure is an unintended consequence of the interaction and communication between a human and a machine, which may (or may not) lead to a prolonged period of changed behaviour, or even deliberate non-use. As Bødker puts it: 'Break-downs transform a situation from being taken-for-granted to being an opportunity for reflection' [4]. As such, the study explores the, what this paper will call, critical incidents that cause interruption in usage and make users contemplate their media and information behaviours-which, as mentioned, may also constitute starting points for new usage patterns.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Critical incidents in everyday technology use: exploring digital breakdowns

Skågeby

2018

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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This paper presents the analysis of 292 personal stories of digital media breakdown in everyday life. The analysis identifies significant occurrences (events, incidents, processes or issues) as identified by informants themselves; the way these occurrences are pragmatically negotiated; and the perceived outcomes in terms of cognitive, affective and behavioural effects. Against a backdrop of techno-optimism, techno-pessimism and technology as experience, the paper proposes four analytical dimensions, or tensions, common in digital media failures: the digital and the material; trust and lack of control; planned obsolescence and desirable updates; and nostalgia and reluctance to go back. While these dimensions indicate a highly ambiguous relation to digital media with the informants, the most striking observation is how the practical solution to these uncertainties is to irrevocably 'accept and commit' to being and becoming even more digital. That is, in the face of (a risk of) digital breakdown, individuals argue that more and upgraded digital media is always the best and undisputable response. In the light of these results, some design possibilities are suggested, including designing for nostalgia, designing for comprehensibility and designing for failing infrastructure resilience.

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Section: Participants and Method: The Critical Incident Techniquementioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 90%

Section: Participants and Method: The Critical Incident Techniquementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Critical incidents in everyday technology use: exploring digital breakdowns

Skågeby

2018

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…While alternative genres are the exception by definition, there is a chance that some will become mainstream over time as more and more researchers experiment with them. We can imagine, for example, that the autoethnographic approach presented in the form of meditation (Bødker, 2017), and memoir (Prasopoulou, 2017) in this special issue, will be pursued by other scholars interested in contributing to the experiential computing (Yoo, 2010) research agenda. These genres hold much promise with regard to exploring the experience of our body's everyday entanglements with technology.…”

Section: Crowdsourced Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alternative genres in information systems research

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Mathiassen

Schultze

2017

European Journal of Information Systems

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In this special issue, we advocate a critical stance toward the presentational conventions that we -as authors, reviewers, and editors -accept as the academic article genre. We seek to highlight and illustrate the generative capacity and the significant role of genres in the production of knowledge. Furthermore, we wish to encourage Information Systems (IS) scholars to leverage a wider array of alternative genres to present their research in order to develop new insights on subject matters of interest to the IS discipline, as well as expand on how contemporary and emergent phenomena of interest are conceived and studied. Adopting a broad view of alternative genres, we solicited articles that apply unconventional presentational modalities to expand or challenge the prevailing modus operandi of communicating IS scholarship and practice. Six articles survived a rather lengthy and challenging review process. We briefly discuss the nature of the academic article genre and the role of alternative ways of writing. We also introduce the six exemplars of alternative genres in the special issue, namely conversation, French new novel, meditation, memoir, allegory, and crowdsourced research. We highlight key insights and contemplate their implications for current and future IS research.

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Socio-Technical HCI Design in a Wider Context

Clemmensen

2021

Human Work Interaction Design

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“What else is there…?”: reporting meditations in experiential computing

Cited by 12 publications

References 36 publications

Critical incidents in everyday technology use: exploring digital breakdowns

Critical incidents in everyday technology use: exploring digital breakdowns

Alternative genres in information systems research

Socio-Technical HCI Design in a Wider Context

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