Understanding Users
The Extensions of Expectant Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5948201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amir‐pouyan Shiva, Amirpouyan Shiva (University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 2016 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 120-133 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-890X • E-ISSN: 1559-8918 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1559-8918.2016.01080 |
| OpenAlex | W2558914995 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper provides an ethnographic understanding of users in the Persian blogosphere through the framework of the carnivalesque. The repertoire of concepts provided by the carnivalesque draws attention to (1) the significance of the material, (2) the dynamic, transforming nature of things, and (3) the possibility of upsetting hierarchies. Drawing upon these insights, ethnographic evidence in this paper suggests that in the Persian blogosphere the material expression of thoughts at times precedes thoughts themselves. The same thoughts may then in turn be used by bloggers in transforming selves. The materiality of the tools bloggers use also contributes to self-fashioning in the Persian blogosphere as the formal properties of blogging services turn users into the instruments of their functionality. Blogs in this sense are expectant systems that demand specific intervention from users so they can function. As such, this paper in the tradition of the carnivalesque playfully turns McLuhan's famous formulation of media as the "extension of man" on its head by arguing that users can likewise be understood as extensions of expectant systems
Aesthetics · Art · Blogosphere · Carnivalesque · Ethnography · Function (biology · Linguistics · Materiality (auditing · Media studies · Persian · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Computer Science · Digital Media and Philosophy · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy
Shaping technology/building society
Sincerity and Authenticity
The Subject and Power
Alone together
Materiality and Organizing
Notes on the theory of the actor-network
Heteromation and its (dis)contents
Ethnopsychologies
Poetry, language, thought
Discipline and Punish
Intentionality and language
Lines
Intentionality
From Fetishism to Sincerity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |