thinking with and thinking about machines
This entry on
"Postsocial Relationality and Blogs" from Iago reminds me of the work that Johndan's been doing with Datacloud, and also offers me a new angle for thinking about the relationships between Web designers and their designs in the research I've just completed, particularly the discussion of how people come to treat a
blog itself as a separate object entirely, one deserving of respect and preservation, precisely because its development over time resulted in something that is not simply a product of a single blogger but of a network of relations in which the blog itself was an important actor with whom people had constructed meaningful and important relationships.
Maybe that's why I miss my computer so much at times (or why Johndan is missing his net access so much?) or why the recently orphaned Weblogs.com users are feeling like their lives have been sucked out?
Posted by at June 16, 2004 09:38 PM
| TrackBack