Stay with Me: Uncertain Indices and Attentional Presence in Chat Interfaces

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Maja Bak Herrie, Mette-Marie Zacher Søresen
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In this article, Herrie and Sørensen examine the mediation of typing indicators (“…”) in online messaging. Their point of departure is a scene from the contemporary novel Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan (2020), in which the ‘dots’ play a prominent role. Their analysis shows how typing indicators, as interface design, mediate the complex communication situation in which they take part: from being mere signals, they have slipped into our emotional lives. From a semiotic perspective (Charles S. Peirce), the authors define typing indicators as uncertain indices which through unknowability and suspense establish an attentional presence. In continuation hereof, the authors argue that the acts of writing and waiting in contemporary attentional ecologies (Yves Citton) through the mediation of typing indicators as indicators of attentional presence, could be considered a mode of caring (Bernard Stiegler).
与我同行:不确定的指数和聊天界面中的注意力
在本文中,Herrie和Sørensen研究了在线消息传递中键入指示符(“…”)的中介作用。他们的出发点是Naoise Dolan(2020)的当代小说《激动人心的时代》中的一幕,在这部小说中,“点”扮演了重要角色。他们的分析表明,打字指标作为界面设计,是如何调节它们所参与的复杂沟通环境的:它们从仅仅是信号,已经渗透到我们的情感生活中。从符号学的角度(Charles S.Peirce),作者将分型指标定义为通过不可知性和悬念建立注意力存在的不确定指标。在本文的延续中,作者认为,在当代注意生态学中(伊夫·西顿),通过将指标分型作为注意存在的指标,写作和等待的行为可以被视为一种关怀模式(伯纳德·斯蒂格勒)。
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Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
Nordic Journal of Aesthetics Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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