Academic Papers

AI & Society, Journal for Knowledge, Culture and Communication

Here you find contributions to the special issue "Witnessed Presence" of AI & Society, Journal for Knowledge, Culture and Communication, to be published by Springer in March 2012.

Most papers are already available online. Some papers are published on this site at full length. Others are just presented with an abstract, due to Springer's and specific university's copyright policies.

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Turner: Everyday Witnessing

An everyday account of witnessing

Phil Turner - This paper presents a discussion of an everyday ontology of witnessing drawing on the writings of…

Korsten: Apostrophe

Frans-Willem Korsten - Apostrophe is best known as a punctuation mark (’), or as a key poetic figure (with a speaker…

Benzaquen: Shifting Testimonies

Stephanie Benzaquen - Thirty years after the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979) how do Cambodians cope with…

Van der Meulen: Fictional Presence

Sjoukje van der Meulen - The relation between “presence” and “representation” is an age-old topic in the arts, but it is…

Brahnam: The Healing Witness

Sheryl Brahnam - Illness and trauma challenge self-narratives. Traumatized individuals, unable to speak about their…

Gullstrom: Design Frictions

Charlie Gullström - A fusion of architecture and media technology, video-mediated spaces facilitate collaborative…

Gill: Rhythmic synchrony

Satinder Gill - Our everyday interactions increasingly involve both embodied face-to-face communication and various…

Nevejan & Brazier: Granularity

Granularity in Reciprocity

Caroline Nevejan, Frances Brazier - Witnessing in merging biological, social and algorithmic realities is crucial to trust, as modelled…

Tara & Ilavarasan: Midnight Commuting

Shelly Tara, Vignesh Ilavarasan - The present paper discusses the role of cabs and the presence of other men in the cab in…

Mendy: Employee's Presence

John Mendy - In recent years, governments, businesses and other organisations have increasingly been forced to…

Berix: Public Participation

Maurice Berix - Engaging the public in decision-making processes is commonly accepted as an effective strategy for…