Social Media and Experiential Ambivalence

Social Media and Experiential Ambivalence

At once fearful and dependent, hopeful and distrustful, our contemporary relationship with technology is highly ambivalent. Using experiential accounts from an ongoing Facebook-based qualitative study (N = 231), I both diagnose and articulate this ambivalence. I argue that technological ambivalence is rooted primarily in the deeply embedded moral prescription to lead a meaningful life, and a re...

Refugee integration and social media: a local and experiential perspective

The refugee crisis has spurred the rapid development of creative technology and social media applications to tackle the problem of refugee integration in Europe. In this article, a qualitative study with 18 refugees from Syria, Eritrea and Afghanistan is presented in order to investigate the uses and purposes of social media associated to the different areas of refugee integration in the Nether...

Lightness, wildness, and ambivalence: China and new media studies

China was linked to the internet in 1994. In 1997, there were only about 670,000 users. By June 2011, China had over 485 million internet users, accounting for nearly 40 percent of the population. The rapid diffusion of the internet has had profound influences on all aspects of Chinese life. Scholars both in China and outside have responded to these new developments by producing a large amount ...

Experiential Media Systems – The Biofeedback Project

Experiential media systems refer to real time, physically grounded multimedia systems in which the user is both the producer and consumer of meaning. These systems require embodied interaction on part of the user to gain new knowledge. In this chapter we have presented our efforts to develop a real-time, multimodal biofeedback system for stroke patients. It is a highly specialized experiential ...

Psychological Culture: Ambivalence and Resistance to Social Change