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This chapter has two aims: first, to show how post‐modern theory helps explain contemporary value changes in Western Europe, and their impact on beliefs about the role and legitimacy of government; second, to demonstrate how the concept of post‐modernism can be operationalized and put to empirical use. It hypothesizes the emergence of new ‘structures of feeling’ and new formations of values, which are united by little else than a common yearning for identity and self‐expression. This hypothesis implies that, rather than moving in patterns structured around socio‐economic groupings, people move in a multitude of both individual‐ and group‐based directions. They will thereby create new patterns of value orientation, which will affect beliefs about government behaviour and transcend traditional allegiances and interests.

Abstract:Collaborative media entail an emerging set of digitally mediated practices, characterized by collaborative communicative action within organically developing, cross-medial infrastructures. We argue that computers are increasingly turning from tools into (collaborative) media in everyday use, and that this shift poses a significant challenge to the discipline of interaction design. Particularly prominent aspects of the challenge include the way design processes are conceptualized and structured, and the way in which communicative perspectives take precedence over instrumental ones.

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Collaborative media refers to digital media where people outside the traditional media industries participate in production as well as infrastructural design. We argue that (1) people's use of computers today increasingly comprise communicating in collaborative media, and that (2) designing collaborative media implies fundamental changes to design processes and designer roles, which in turn (3) forms a challenge to the proactive position of the CHI community in shaping future computer use.