Social Movements as ‘Arenas’ and ‘Actors’ in Transnationalizing Public Spheres

Firms as Social Actors

This essay asks what firms are, whether they are ‘real’ social actors, and whether their actions can be traced without remainder to the actions of living people or whether there is some irreducible aspect of their existence or operation that must be attributed to the organization itself. It describes firms as ongoing, multilateral relational contracts from whose operation – that is, from perfor...

Blobulous: Computers As Social Actors

Public interaction experiences are becoming ubiquitous recently, however, interaction is usually limited to broadcasting and the actual experience not very rich. Especially social connectedness and bonding are important aspects of public interaction that are often overlooked. This paper reports on research investigating how a publicly displayed application can improve social connectedness by ac...

Feel Connected with Social Actors in Public Spaces

Public spaces changed in the last couple of years: abundant use of smart phones and other digitally connecting devices draw peoples' attention away from physical neighbors to virtual peer groups. So, will masses of isolated people be the desired future? We think that current technology involving new display technology and, therein, new interaction possibilities hint at a different future vision...

Private Governance Across Multiple Arenas: European Interest Associations as Interface Actors von

Private governance across multiple arenas: European interest associations as interface actors

As a result of growing economic globalization and rapid technological changes governance in the Želd of information and communication policy increasingly requires policy co-ordination across multiple arenas, not only including vertical co-ordination across different institutional levels, but also horizontal coordination across different policy sectors. In view of these new co-ordination demands...