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    Interruptions: Reconsidering the Immaterial in Human Engagements with Technology

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    Authors
    Sandry, Eleanor
    Willson, Michele
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Sandry, E. and Willson, M. 2014. Interruptions: Reconsidering the Immaterial in Human Engagements with Technology. Transformations Journal. 2014 (25).
    Source Title
    Transformations Journal
    Additional URLs
    http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/25/05.shtml
    ISSN
    1444-3775
    School
    Department of Internet Studies
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    This article is published under the Open Access publishing model and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ Please refer to the licence to obtain terms for any further reuse or distribution of this work

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24359
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This paper explores conceptions of the immaterial in human engagements with technology and technological systems. It employs two different theories of interruption, one technical and the other philosophical, as a means to examine the renegotiations of human-technology relationships that occur when a system, previously considered immaterial and judged inconsequential, reveals itself as significant. Two examples, the Millennium bug and Facebook’s provision of Open Graph, are used to illustrate people’s sudden recognition of the operation of underlying technological systems. This paper considers these moments as interruptions in order not only to analyse people’s reappraisal of the perceived immateriality of the technologies, but also to emphasise the value of recognising their consequence and apparent agency.

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