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This volume contributes to postphenomenological research into human-technology relations with essays reflecting on methodological issues through empirical studies of education, digital media, biohacking, health, robotics, and skateboarding. This work provides new perspectives that call for a comprehensive postphenomenological research methodology.
List of contents
Foreword - Don Ihde
Introduction - Jesper Aagaard, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, Oliver Tafdrup & Cathrine Hasse
Part I: Educational Technologies
Chapter 1: Doing Postphenomenology in Education - Catherine Adams and Joni Turville
Chapter 2: Inviting and Interacting: Postphenomenology and the Microsociology of Education - Tobias Röhl
Chapter 3: Entering the Portal: Media Technologies and Experiential Transportation - Jesper Aagaard
Part II: Self-Tracking & Imaging Technologies
Chapter 4: Human Technology Relationships in the Digital Age: The Collapse of Metaphore in Biohacking - Moa Petersén
Chapter 5: Service Interfaces in Human Technology Relations: A Case Study of Self-Tracking Technologies - Fernando Secomandi
Chapter 6: From Camera Obscura to fMRI: How Brain Imaging Technologies Mediate Free Will - Ciano Aydin
Part III: Robotic Technologies
Chapter 7: Paleoanthropology and Social Robotics: Old and New Ways in Mediating Alerity Relations - Michael Funk
Chapter 8: Lost in Translation? Getting to Grips with Multistable Technology in an Apparently Stable World - Lasse Blond & Kasper Schiølin
Part IV: General Methodological Issues
Chapter 9: Why it Takes both Postphenomenology and STS to Account for Technological Mediation: The Case of LOVE Park - Robert Rosenberger
Chapter 10: Describing and Valuing Technological Mediation: From Postphenomenological Bridgeheads to Technoethical Outposts - Michael Puech
Chapter 11: Technological Mediation and Socio-Cultural Variability - Arun Kumar Tripathi
Chapter 12: Studying the Telescopes of Others: Towards a Postphenomenological Methodology of Participant Observation - Cathrine Hasse
About the author
Jesper Aagaard is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at Aarhus University.
Jan Kyrre Berg Friis is course manager of theory of science at Copenhagen University.
Jessica Sorenson is research assistant at the Future, Technology, Culture, and Learning program at Aarhus University.
Oliver Tafdrup is doctoral fellow at the Future, Technology, Culture, and Learning program at Aarhus University.
Cathrine Hasse is professor of cultural anthropology and learning at Aarhus University.
Summary
This volume contributes to postphenomenological research into human-technology relations with essays reflecting on methodological issues through empirical studies of education, digital media, biohacking, health, robotics, and skateboarding. This work provides new perspectives that call for a comprehensive postphenomenological research methodology.
