Concept
As per the Zuboff's definition, and examples stated in her book surrounding the concept, confers the basic idea as, any activity, such as two friends who using facebook communicate to other whats on their mind. Which could also be said they are informating, where using a technological tool such as facebook, the two friends are converting their activity of thinking or per se something specific to their mutual context, into information. Thereby making their activity visible to friend or friends.
With advent of parallelism also the concept of informating is achieving further value. Because any activity done is able to produce multiple streams of information, which may be independent, yet held together by the context, in which they are embedded.
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Famous quotes containing the word concept:
“the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.”
—Zeno Vendler (b. 1921)
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—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
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—Christina Stead (1902–1983)