Postphenomenological Methodologies

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.

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 Rö hl

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 Petersé n

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 Schiø lin

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