Participation Literacy

En människa reser sig ur bädden. Hon glider in i en klädnad av djurhudar och slår sig ned vid matplatsen med elddonet. En gnista lyser upp skogsdungen och snart jagar eldsflammorna varandra medan dagen gryr.
Paddeln träffar ytan med jämna framåtdrivande rörelser. När han är framme vid fiskestället tar han fram det egenhändigt tillverkade metspöt och […]

I am going to start this session with two pictures, or stories, meant to illustrate the title: the Technologically Navigating Cyborg. After that the focus is on two questions: what is a cyborg and what is social navigation. Finally, I wrap this up with a concept called ‘flow’ which I think is a good start […]

This section marks the end of my licentiate thesis and the beginning of my dissertation. In this respect you might call it a boundary object. I have done what I thought was necessary for my coming research. I have created a base for my epistemological journey. This journey is called Participation Literacy.
I may sound somewhat […]

Web 2.0 implicates a body. The body is often called “Web as a platform”. Sometimes the concept Native Web is used in a similar meaning. Native Web implies something which is born on the web and lives its whole life there. PC applications might use the web in many ways but there is a big […]

I am a human, I am a man. Donna Haraway’s cyborg is “a creature in a post-gender world”(1991). I cannot see that world yet. The world I live in is absurdly gendered. Women have been oppressed for thousands of years, at least, and I am afraid they are always going to be that as long […]

A cyborg is a cybernetic mechanism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction. The international women’s movements have constructed ‘women’s experience’, as well as uncovered or discovered this crucial collective […]

The Native Web Cyborg is an intersection and an offspring of the Web 2.0 discourse and the stories about Cyborgs told by authors and researchers like Donna Haraway and Steven Warwick. This entity was moulded by bodies, voices and technology. It was born many thousand years ago when the human race was young and recently […]

The idea for Part III came from Steven Warwick and his task of turning himself into a man-machine hybrid (2000). He is calling himself a cyborg, and I agree he is a cyborg. But a cyborg is much more, or other than, connecting my nervous system to a set of tools, learning my mind to […]

What skin am I talking about? The skin belongs to the concept Web 2.0. It also belongs to me as a researcher, and it certainly belongs to technology and society as a whole. I do not know about you, but I am quite tired of the word Web 2.0 by now. I guess you also […]

Sharing thoughts and information in coffee rooms, staff meetings, seminars and conferences is important, but you have to accept that our professional lives have changed. A substantial part of our work space has actually moved in recent years. It was not a long time ago my desktop contained pencils, rubbers, envelopes, heaps of papers and […]