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Ambient Awareness - Cyborg Anthropology

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Ambient awareness is a way of describing the idea of being "ambiently aware" of another's actions, thoughts and experiences without having to be near them physically, and without specifically requesting such information. Ambient awareness is best defined by user experience designer Leisa Reichelt. One of her definitions is that ambient awareness "is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn't usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible."[1] Many social network clients have notification settings that provide pop-ups that pop over windows on a computer screen, providing a tiny window into the lives of others. One can sit at an office computer all day and still feel connected to friends, because they are being let in on the lives and happening of others bit by bit, in tiny digestible pieces, over the course of the day. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang wrote that "Each little update — each individual bit of

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