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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by ASU Digital Repository "Tumbling through Space in a Gold Box" Reconceptualizing New Communication Technologies as Atmospheric by Brandon Boyd Ferderer A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Approved November 2019 by the Graduate Supervisory Committee: Daniel C. Brouwer, Chair Aaron Hess Kevin McHugh ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY December 2019 ABSTRACT New communication technologies have undoubtedly altered the ways in which persons interact and have had a profound impact on public life. Engaging this impact, much of the scholarly literature has focused on how these interfaces mediate interaction however, less is known about technology's modulating effects. The current project moves beyond mediation, underscoring how social relations are not only activated by technology, but are actuated by these interfaces. Through an extended case study of Portals, gold shipping containers equipped with audio-visual technology that put persons in digital face-to-face interaction with others around the globe, the current project engages such actuation, highlighting how the co-mingling of affect and technology generate new ways of noticing, living and thinking through the complex relationships of public life. The human/technology relations mediated/modulated by the Portal produce unique atmospheres that activate/actuate public space and blur the boundaries between public and private. Additionally, the atmospheres of the Portal generate a digital co- presence that allows for user/participants to feel with their interlocutors. This “feeling with” suspends user/participants in atmospheres of human connection through the emergence of an imaginative dialogue, and the curating of such atmospheres leads to dialogic transformation. As such, the Portal operates as an atmospheric interface. Engaging the concept of atmosphere attunes those interested in new communication technologies to the complex gatherings these technologies create, and the potentialities and pitfalls of these emerging interfaces on public life. i DEDICATION To all of the strangers I met while tumbling through space in a gold box…. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Someone once told me that the only thing stupider than starting a doctoral program is not finishing it. While there have been several moments when I have wanted to give up (including a heart attack), these words kept me going. However, these words alone did not prevent me from making a mistake even more ill-informed than pursuing a doctorate in the first place – it was all the people who supported me along the way that truly got me through. Maybe starting a Ph.D. is stupid, but the relationships one builds throughout the process make it worth it. Reflecting on the relationships that sustained my spirit, I have to begin by thanking my Chair, Daniel Brouwer. It was your belief in my ability to get through this process that inspired me to finally get my Ph.D. I am forever grateful for your meticulous eye, the level of care you provide each of your students, and the ways in which you have nurtured me as a writer and thinker over the years. I am delighted to call you a mentor and humbled to call you a friend. Not everyone could have seen my potential. However, as Mitch Rose suggests, you were able to recognize something in me that may not have always been there – something that while perhaps not present was awaiting presence. Thank you for seeing my spirit, even when I was not able to – for sustaining my spirit, even when I did not know how to go on. I would also like to thank my committee, Aaron Hess and Kevin McHugh. Aaron, I found myself transfixed by the digital and stumbling over how to engage that hypnosis. You provided me with both theory and method – a lens through which to engage my digital entanglements and an orientation for how I might make sense of their technological grip. I am so grateful for both our conversations and your writing. To Kevin McHugh, it was your intellect and the ideas it inspired that truly shaped my iii doctoral career. You reminded me of what it means to be an academic – no, an intellectual, a scholar. When everyone around me was “ready player one” in the game of the academy you lifted me into the airs of serious intellectual thought. The concepts I learned and the conversations I had with you were the impetus for this document. Nostalgia may be enchantment at a distance, but I will always look back and be enchanted by the ways in which you pushed the limits of both my intellect and my writing, and I will always write assuming, or rather hoping that you are my reader. In addition to my committee I need to thank perhaps my most important mentor, Belle Edson. Words cannot express the level of gratitude I have for your continued support and friendship. From walking through Trinity College in Dublin discussing my future as an undergraduate, to holding my hand as the paramedics arrived during my heart attack, to providing me a safe and comfortable space to live after suffering the worst heartbreak (yes, even worse than a heart attack) of my life, you have never given up on me, you have always lifted me up, and you have been a guiding light through some of my darkest times. Thanks Bruce, I love you! I also need to thank my colleagues, the cohort of misfit toys. I cannot imagine having gone through this process with a different group. Karlee, Nandita, Alaina, Summer, Jay, Ashley, Dayna, and Elaina, you all inspired me from the first day of our program, you always made this an environment of support rather than competition, and I am forever grateful for your friendship. To Michael Tristano, even though I will be a Dr. at the end of this, it was meeting you that made this nonsense worth it. Thank you for rubbing my back at the end of a bar, rolling your eyes with me as another person did another nonsense thing, and for just being the best friend I could have asked for iv throughout this process. I am so grateful to have you as a colleague and interlocutor, and so happy to have you as a friend. I would be remiss if I did not thank Shared Studios. I am so appreciative that you took a chance on a guy who just showed up at New Lab and demanded he work with you. I am even more grateful for the relationships I have built within the Portals network. I am especially grateful for the friendships I have made with Portal curators. I could have never imagined having a group of friends from so many amazing places, and to have the privilege of engaging so many diverse and incredible perspectives on the world, on life and on what it means to be human. Shared Studios helped me travel the world, one Portal connection at a time, and for that I am forever grateful. Finally, I am thankful for my family. To my mom, dad, and stepmother, thank you for your continued support. And to my extended family, specifically Dr. Michelle Martinez. I include you here because you are my family. Thank you for the writing retreats where we cleared our heads and wrote from our hearts. Thank you for the meals you cooked for me and the shoulder you let me cry on. Thank you for the trip to Middle Earth and the lagoon in Hawaii. Most of all, thank you for getting it, really fucking getting it – on every level. I love you! v TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER Page 1 MODULATING ATMOSPHERES .................................................................... 1 Unit: Portals as Modulating Interface ....................................................... 3 Modulating Units: The Potentiality of Portals ......................................... 6 Theoretical Problems ................................................................................ 6 Hybrid Spaces and Affective Publics ...................................................... 7 Theoretical Arguments ............................................................................. 8 Portals and Publics ................................................................................. 10 Practical Problems ................................................................................. 12 Preview of Chapters ............................................................................... 15 2 A CASE FOR AN ATMOSPHERIC INTERFACE ........................................ 20 Vibration: Mediating and Modulating Technological Affects .............. 22 Amplitude: Mediated Affects and Public Life ...................................... 25 Technological Affects as Modulators of Public Life ............................ 34 Tone: Portals and a Move Toward the Atmospheric ............................. 36 Atmospheric Tones ............................................................................... 37 Tumbling through Space in a Gold Box: The Portal as Atmospheric ... 42 Expressed Worlds ................................................................................... 42 Condition and Suspension ...................................................................... 45 Unreal Realness ...................................................................................... 48 Atmospheric Interfaces and Public Life ................................................. 50 vi CHAPTER Page 3 PARTICIPATORY CRITICAL RHETORIC AND DIGITAL DEVICES FOR DOING ATMOSPHERIC THINGS ................................................................. 53 Participatory Critical Rhetoric ............................................................... 54 A Move Toward a Participatory Critical Approach .............................
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