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Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to comprehensively study “human-media relations,” making use of conceptual instruments such as the transparency-opacity distinction, embodiment, multistability, variational analysis, and cultural hermeneutics. This collection outlines central issues of media and mediation theory that can be explored postphenomenologically and showcases research at the cutting edge of philosophy of media and technology. The contributors together enlarge the range of thinking about human-media-world relations in contemporary society, reflecting the interdisciplinary range of this school of thought, and explore, sometimes self-reflexively and sometimes critically, the provocative landscape of postphenomenology and media.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Shadows and the New Media
Don Ihde
Acknowledgements
Introduction: “What Media Do”
Yoni Van Den Eede, Stacey O. Irwin, and Galit Wellner
Part 1: Exploring Media Environments with Postphenomenology
Chapter One: Mediating (Infra)structures: Technology, Media, Environment
Heather Wiltse
Chapter Two: Transparent Media and the Development of Digital Habits
Daniel Susser
Chapter Three: Body, Technology, and Humanity
Shoji Nagataki
Chapter Four: Magic, Augmentations, and Digital Powers
Nicola Liberati
Part 2: Postphenomenologically Investigating Media Cases
Chapter Five: Extensions and Concentric Circles: Exploring Transparency and Opacity in Three Media Technologies
Robert N. Spicer
Chapter Six: Multimedia Stabilities: Exploring the GoPro Experience
Stacey O. Irwin
Chapter Seven: Digital Images and Multistability in Design Practice
Fernando Secomandi
Chapter Eight: On the Immersion of E-Reading (Or Lack Thereof)
Robert Rosenberger
Part 3: Shaping Postphenomenological Media Theory
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Product details

Published Feb 11 2020
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 294
ISBN 9781498550161
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 18 b/w photos; 1 tables;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Yoni Van Den Eede

Anthology Editor

Stacey O'Neal Irwin

Anthology Editor

Galit Wellner

Contributor

Lars Botin

Contributor

Pieter Lemmens

Contributor

Nicola Liberati

Contributor

Shoji Nagataki

Contributor

Robert Rosenberger

Robert Rosenberger is Associate Professor at the G…

Contributor

Daniel Susser

Contributor

Heather Wiltse

Contributor

Galit Wellner

Foreword

Don Ihde

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