Internet-Liebe: Zur technischen Mediatisierung intimer Kommunikation
“Was ist überhaupt unter Cyber-, Online-, Netz- oder Internet-Liebe zu vestehen und wie verbreitet ist das Phänomen? Wo findet das Kennenlernen statt? Nach welchen Kriterien erfolgt die Partnerwahl? Welche Beziehungsformen werden realisiert? Welche besonderen Chancen und Risiken sind mit intimer Netzkontakten verbunden? Anhand von authentischen Fallbeispielen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Studien geht der Beitrag diesen Fragen nach.”
PDF Dokument: Internet-Liebe: Zur technischen Mediatisierung intimer Kommunikation. Doring, Nicola (2003).
Feminist Views of Cybersex: Victimization, Liberation, and Empowerment
“Cybersex can be defined as a social interaction between at least two persons who are exchanging real time digital messages in order to become sexually aroused and satisfied. This article first describes video- and text-based cybersex as a new kind of sexual encounter with its own particularities. Then the feminist literature on cybersex is reviewed revealing two basic perspectives: The victimization perspective interprets cybersex as a heterosexist practice, and focuses on how women and girls as individuals and as a group are harmed by online-harassment, virtual rape and cyber-prostitution. The liberation perspective, in contrast, focuses on the options computer-mediated communication offers women and girls who actively seek sexual pleasure online. From that viewpoint, cybersex frees females to explore their sexualities more safely and to enjoy more sex, better sex and different sex”.
This article, from Nicola Döring , criticizes both the victimization and the liberation perspective and offers an integrative empowerment perspective that acknowledges power discourse as an essential sexual issue online and off.
Read the complete paper here: Döring, N. (2000). Feminist Views of Cybersex: Victimization, Liberation, and Empowerment. CyberPsychology and Behavior, 3 (5), 863-884.
Presse: Studium eignet sich gut für die Liebe auf Distanz
Von: 20-cent.de
01.08.2008
Meist sind in den Studentenjahren noch keine Kinder im Haus, und Auslandsaufenthalte lassen sich zum gleichen Zeitpunkt verwirklichen. Semesterferien und verlängerte Wochenenden bieten die Möglichkeit, sich trotz der Entfernung zu sehen. E-Mail und Handy erleichtern ebenfalls die Liebe auf Distanz.
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Prensa: Para que funcione una relación a distancia
Fuente: Periodista Digital
16.07.08
En la actualidad, los avances tecnológicos facilitan la comunicación entre personas que viven en lugares diferentes. Pero aunque sí es posible mantener una relación a distancia, no se debe obviar la dificultad de la misma. Tipos de relaciones a distancia y conflictos frecuentes, factores positivos y negativos para la conviviencia y más… Ver artículo completo
Press: Internet, a 'blessing' for long distant lovers!
Source: Sify News
Thursday, 17 July , 2008
With communication getting easier day-by-day, the Internet is turning out to be a blessing for people involved in long distance relationships, shows a new survey. According to the study, social networking websites have led to a boom in long-distance relationships. Read complete article…
Mobile Device against Cultural Shock / Juego móvil contra el choque cultural
The University of PortsMouth has developed a mobile phone game to help overseas students deal with culture shock of life in Britain.
Complete article here / Articulo completo aquí
Académicos de la Universidad de PortsMouth han desarrollado un videojuego para móvil, que intenta reducir el choque cultural de los estudiantes extranjeros que van a estudiar a Inglaterra.
28.05.07 | communication, cultural shock, new technologies | CommentsLong Distance Calls / Llamadas de larga distancia / Billige Telefonate ins Ausland
If you are looking for a cheap way of making long distance calls to a landline, I´ll recommend you the following services: see complete article
Si estás buscando una manera barata de realizar llamadas a distancia, te recomiendo los siguientes servicios: ver artículo
Wenn du günstige Möglichkeiten suchst, um Auslandstelefonate ins Festnetz zu führen, empfehle ich dir folgende Diensleistungen: ganzer Artikel
26.04.07 | advice, communication, new technologies, tips | CommentsCommunicating Intimacy for couples in long-distance relationships
This study from the Cornell University in New York, demostrates the importance of comunication, no matter how simple it is!
ABSTRACT: “In this paper, we present a study of ‘minimal intimate objects’: low bandwidth devices for communicating intimacy for couples in long-distance relationships. We describe a user study of a software intimate object built to communicate a single bit at a time. The results from both log data and journal entries suggest that even a one-bit communication device is seen by users as a valuable and rich channel for communicating intimacy, despite the availability of wider channels of communication such as email, instant messaging, and telephone. We suggest the constrained nature of the communication affords active reinterpretation by its users, and discuss the results in the context of the study of intimacy in human-computer interaction”.
25.04.07 | communication, intimacy, new technologies |Supporting Simple Intimacy
ABSTRACT: “In this paper, we describe three experiments in designing for minimal, expressive communication. These are very simple networked devices that are aimed at supporting implicit, personal, and expressive communication, as opposed to the explicit, goal-oriented, and informative communication characterising most CSCW systems. We suggest that these prototypes open an interesting space for collaborative systems, and describe some of the issues and opportunities they raise.”
Feather, Scent, and Shaker: Supporting Simple Intimacy. Strong, R., and Gaver, 1996. (PDF, 48KB)
14.03.07 | communication, intimacy, new technologies | CommentsSensing Beds
If sometimes you cannot sleep because you´re missing your partner, you may find interesting the idea of the Sesing Beds.
„The Sensing Beds domesticate communications devices by placing them in the bedroom. The beds mediate between two romantic partners who are not co-located by sensing body position in each bed and using a grid of small heating pads to warm the congruent points in the other bed. As an experiment in telepresence, they bridge the physical distance between two people who would normally share a bed, but find themselves sleeping apart. As an experiment in slow technology and emotional communication, they articulate users’ existing concerns about intimacy, trust and knowledge.“
Sensing Beds. Elizabeth Goodman, Marion Misilim. Interactive Telecommunications Program. New York University, 2003 (PDF, 152KB)
5.03.07 | intimacy, new technologies | ComentariosPrincipiantes de las Nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación
Jorge-Guillermo Lewin Tapia estuvo estudiando dos años en Barcelona, mientras su mujer tuvo que quedarse en Chile trabajando. Como producto de esta experiencia, este autor nos relata como autoetnografía, sus aventuras tratando de encontrar la mejor manera de comunicarse con su mujer, utilizando las „nuevas tecnologías“. El texto es muy simpático, pues relata la desesperación y la dificultades de una persona novata tecnológicamente. En algún momento pasé también por esto y creo que hasta me identifico con su historia.
Cuando el océano ya no es la última frontera. Jorge-Guillermo Lewin Tapia, 2004 (PDF, 150KB)
24.02.07 | experiences, new technologies | Comments
