Postphenomenology and Media

Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human-Media-World Relations explores our contemporary media landscape from the unique perspective of postphenomenology. This volume for the first time puts the central concepts of postphenomenology to work for the specific analysis of new, digital media-thus delivering a wholly innovative take on their study.

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
Chapter Nine: Sublime Embodiment of the Media
Lars Botin
Chapter Ten: Thinking Through Media: Stieglerian Remarks on a Possible Postphenomenology of Media
Pieter Lemmens
Chapter Eleven: I-Media-World: The Algorithmic Shift from Hermeneutic Relations to Writing Relations
Galit Wellner
Chapter Twelve: The Mediumness of World: A Love Triangle of Postphenomenology, Media Ecology, and Object-Oriented Philosophy
Yoni Van Den Eede