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

Maja Bak Herrie; Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen

doi:10.7146/nja.v32i65.140199

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

Maja Bak Herrie, Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen

Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Æstetik og Kultur

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review

Abstract

In this article, Herrie and Sorensen 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).

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
Vol/bind	32
Nummer	65
Sider (fra-til)	50–57
Antal sider	8
ISSN	2000-1452
DOI	https://doi.org/10.7146/nja.v32i65.140199
Status	Udgivet - jun. 2023

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