Interactivity vs Interpassivity - What's the difference?
interactivity | interpassivity |
A state of passivity, particularly cognitive or emotional passivity, enabled or facilitated by the appearance or potential of interactivity
* Juha Suoranta and Tere Vadén (2010). Wikiworld , Pluto Press, p. 133
As nouns the difference between interactivity and interpassivity
is that interactivity is the quality of being interactive while interpassivity is a state of passivity, particularly cognitive or emotional passivity, enabled or facilitated by the appearance or potential of interactivity.interpassivity
English
Noun
(-)- ...the true motivation for readymade laughter in TV comedies is interpassivity : I don't have to engage in recognising, sympathising with and interpreting the drama.
References
* Slavoj Žižek (1998). "Cyberspace, or, How to Traverse the Fantasy in the Age of the Retreat of the Big Other", Public Culture , volume 10 issue 3, p. 483 *: ...interpassivity , the exact obverse of "interactivity," which refers to the sense of being active through another subject who does the job for one...