The Ambient Intimacy
How Do We Tell Our Life Stories Together Apart?
Micha Wanke
Ambient Intimacy? Definition
being able to keep in touch with people
with a level of regularity and intimacy
without time and space constraints
without direct engagement in interactionLeisa Reichelt
continual partial friendship - David Weinberger
continuous partial attention- Linda Stone
How does it work? Tools
ambient intimacy tools:micro-blogs
social networking sites
media sharing sites
scrobblers
IM/statuses
blogs
mobile access
The content
what are you doing? - everyday life
facts, places, comments, states of mind, feelings, significant
others, important events
regular
instant
continuous
what's happened in your life? - major events
Who is doing it?
digital divide
instrumental internet (Tufekci, 2008)performing tasks
information seeking
expressive internetself-expression
creativity
online/real life buddies
from online communities to personal networks, PC internet keitai
internet (Tomita, 2005)
What is going on?
social phenomena:identity construction
social (co)presence
weak ties
indirection (communication)
Telling Identities
reflexive identity / impression managementgeneralized other,
self-log
control
narrative identity (everyday) life storydaily updates
biographical milestones
self disclosureprivacy concerns, audience management
re-embodiment
Social (Co)Presence
telecocoon (Habuchi, 2005) - zone of intimacy maintained not
restricted by time and space
relations in public
distributed presence (Turkle 1996) / hyper-connected (Wellman,
2001)
RL in the virtual spacephotos
biographic information
off-line buddies
location based media
panopticon
The Strength of The Weak Ties
intimate stranger (Tomita, 2005) high anonymity &
intimacy
media multiplexity (Haythornthwaite, 2005)
together apart (Bauman)
Indirect Communication
orchestral communication
self-broadcasting
social performance
phatic expressions
Social Implicatinos
shift from online communities to forms of sociability
new type of social ties?
research possibilitiesconversation analysis
biographical method
Thanks
How Do We Tell Our Life Stories Together Apart?
Micha Wanke
