Response presence can sustain intersubjective social forms across global distances

Evidence

The distinction between embodied presence and response presence serves as a starting point for an understanding of global microstructured domains. The question that lies at the core of the notion of a responsepresence–based social form that extends across global distances is, What are the possibilities of its inherent connectivity and integration as the key to overcoming the geographical separation of participants? We introduce the notion of a global we relationship that is based on temporal coordination to suggest that a level of microintegration, or intersubjectivity, is possible in global fields. We will also use a second concept, the face-toscreen situation, to show how local settings are configured in terms of an orientation toward distantiated interaction. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 33

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to Goffman-inspired microsociology being extended to distributed/global fields; the face-to-screen concept parallels trader-screen ethnographies in doing finance-ethnography reading. — connects to: Global market interaction produces intersubjectivity beyond face-to-face encounters — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 98; Social media constitutes a contextual monoculture that destroys meaning-bearing spatial context — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 548; Mere social presence presupposes trust and expands as trust accumulates — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 187 (+1 more)

Broader Connections