计算夫妻:计算亲密关系和1980年代的浪漫软件

IF 0.1 3区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

CAMERA OBSCURA Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1215/02705346-10654941

Reem Hilu

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在20世纪80年代，随着家庭计算机市场的兴起，一类软件出现了，它们承诺以计算机为媒介的浪漫和性体验。这些程序被本文称为“浪漫软件”，它们借鉴了流行的心理学和治疗理论，为情侣们提供更令人满意的关系建议，同时还把他们与电脑的互动作为一种亲密或浪漫的活动来管理。这篇文章认为，恋爱软件将当时新颖的家用电脑作为一种工具，可以帮助调解关系和沟通理想，并在20世纪80年代对关系的期望不断变化的背景下支持异性恋夫妇。浪漫软件试图实例化计算亲密关系——不仅指将计算方法应用于关系管理，还指情侣一起使用电脑时的浪漫或情爱体验。尽管它们只是这十年中推出的软件的一小部分，但这些程序将家庭计算设想为一种调解伴侣关系的技术。浪漫软件表明，20世纪80年代的一些软件公司不仅将个人电脑用户视为抽象的男性个体，而且还将用户视为伴侣关系中的角色，在这种情况下是夫妻关系的一部分。这些项目提出了一些方法，通过这些方法，计算机可以帮助那些在家中使用计算机的夫妇建立更好的关系。

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Calculating Couples: Computing Intimacy and 1980s Romance Software

Abstract In the 1980s, as the market for computing in the home was still emerging, a category of software arose that promised computer-mediated experiences of romance and sex. These programs, which this essay is calling “romance software,” drew on popular psychological and therapeutic discourses to offer couples advice for more satisfying relationships while also managing their interactions with the computer as an intimate or romantic activity. This essay argues that romance software employed the then novel home computer as a tool that could help mediate relational and communication ideals and bolster the heterosexual couple in the context of changing expectations for relationships in the 1980s. Romance software attempted to instantiate computing intimacy — referring not only to the application of computational methods to the management of relationships but also to the romantic or erotic experience of a couple using computers together. Although they amounted to a minor subset of the software introduced during the decade, these programs envisioned computing in the home as a technology to mediate companionate relationships. Romance software demonstrates that some software companies in the 1980s conceived of personal computer users not only as abstracted masculine individuals but rather addressed users within their roles in companionate relationships, in this case as part of a couple. These programs proposed methods through which computing could be used to assist in creating better relationships for couples that had adopted computers into their homes.

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CAMERA OBSCURA FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

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期刊介绍： Since its inception, Camera Obscura has devoted itself to providing innovative feminist perspectives on film, television, and visual media. It consistently combines excellence in scholarship with imaginative presentation and a willingness to lead media studies in new directions. The journal has developed a reputation for introducing emerging writers into the field. Its debates, essays, interviews, and summary pieces encompass a spectrum of media practices, including avant-garde, alternative, fringe, international, and mainstream. Camera Obscura continues to redefine its original statement of purpose. While remaining faithful to its feminist focus, the journal also explores feminist work in relation to race studies, postcolonial studies, and queer studies.