Lady Caroline Lamb’s Recuperative Materiality

Caroline Haythornthwaite

This paper explores the impact of communication media and the Internet on connectivity between people. Results from a series of social network studies of media use are used as background for exploration of these impacts. These studies explored the use of all available media among members of an academic research group and among distance learners. Asking about media use as well as about the stren...

The Recuperative Power of Old Age

to think that advanced age is not such an important negative factor in the prognosis of wounds, injuries, operations, or disease as it is stated to be. When we remember that in old persons the physical powers are becoming weakened; that the wear and tear is not so easily combated ; that the skin and internal organisms are lessening in their secretory powers; that the muscular tissue is becoming...

Emerging Materiality

In this article we look at how materiality emerges from complex chains of mediation in creative software use. The primarily theoretical argument is inspired and illustrated by interviews with two composers of electronic music. We argue that computer mediated activity should not primarily be understood in terms of simple mediation, but rather as chains of complex mediation in which the dominatin...

Materiality , materialization

What is materiality? And is it of a different order from semiosis? In this commentary I reflect on the place of materiality—that quality of material phenomena—and materialization—the processes by which such qualities are actualized in social life—in Matthew Hull’s brilliant book, Government of paper (GoP). The analytic materiality is central to Hull’s ethnography, both theoretically (it informs...

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