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Living Together With a Green Dot – Being Together Alone in Times of Hyper-connection

Author(s): de Mul, Elize
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Our communication with others nowadays often takes place via the various screens in our lives. Friends are reduced to merely a green dot on a screen, comfortingly telling us they are there, or to two green checkmarks that assure us the message we have sent out to the world has been read by friendly eyes. It is fascinating to state that these new forms of connection are examples of an on-going alienation by means of technologies; of us being alone, even when we are together. Instead, we could look at this ‘living together with green dots’ as an example of not an on-going alienation, but of a new form of being together typical for this era of ‘hyper-connection’.


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de Mul, Elize: Living Together With a Green Dot – Being Together Alone in Times of Hyper-connection. In: Janssens, Liisa: The Art of Ethics in the Information Society. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2016, S. 101-105. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/13403.
@INCOLLECTION{de Mul2016,
 author = {de Mul, Elize},
 title = {Living Together With a Green Dot – Being Together Alone in Times of Hyper-connection},
 year = 2016,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/13403},
 editor = {Janssens, Liisa},
 address = {Amsterdam},
 booktitle = {The Art of Ethics in the Information Society},
 pages = {101--105},
 publisher = {Amsterdam University Press},
}
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