Imagination and Culture

What Is It Like Being in the Cyberspace

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18986619
AutoresGiuseppe Mantovani (0000-0002-0837-0351, autor de correspondencia), Anna Spagnolli (0000-0002-7964-7186)
Año2000
Volumen7
Número3
Páginas217-226
Fecha de publicación2000-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMind Culture and Activity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1074-9039 • E-ISSN: 1532-7884
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1207/s15327884mca0703_09
OpenAlexW2092392941
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas19

New information technologies are constructing living and working environments that people often find disorienting. This can be seen as a general effect of the introduction of new artifacts that disrupt preexisting routines and destroy the previous distribution of work. Communities have to cope with unprecedented environments by developing imagination as a cultural resource, allowing them to make sense of the ambiguous situations created by new computer technologies. New computer artifacts alter not only the social fabric of the communities in which they are adopted, but also the kind of relations that tools once had with human minds. Both processes-the appearance of uncharted environments and the emergence of an "intimate" technology-emphasize the function of semiotic mediation involved in artifact use. Making sense of new environments (such as shared virtual environments designed to support distant coworking) means making them part of the sociocultural network that maintains "real" communities and reconfiguring in imaginative ways the existing sociocultural networks

Aesthetics · Art · Cyberspace · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Team Dynamics and Performance