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

Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 32 (65) (2023)
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In this article, Herrie and Sørensen 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).

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edition Lund, Jacob; Pedersen, Birgitte Stougaard; Søresen, Mette-Marie Zacher; Herrie, Maja Bak (2023) "Introduction: The Aesthetics of Attention". Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 32(65):

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