Researching a Posthuman World: Interviews with Digital Objects

ISBN-13: 9781137571618 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 139 str.

Catherine Adams; Terrie-Lynn Thompson

Opis

This book provides a practical approach for applying posthumanist insights to qualitative research inquiry. Adams and Thompson invite readers to embrace their inner - and outer - cyborg as they consider how today's professional practices and everyday ways of being are increasingly intertwined with digital technologies. Drawing on posthuman scholarship, the authors offer eight heuristics for "interviewing objects" in an effort to reveal the unique - and sometimes contradictory - contributions the digital is making to work, learning and living. The heuristics are drawn from Actor Network Theory, phenomenology, postphenomenology, critical media studies and related sociomaterial approaches. This text offers a theoretically informed yet practical approach for asking critical questions of digital and non-digital things in professional and personal spaces, and ultimately, for considering the ethical and political implications of a technology mediated world. A thought-provoking and innovative study, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of technology studies, digital learning, and sociology.

O autorze

Catherine Adams is an Associate Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Canada. Using a phenomenology of practice, her research investigates technology integration across K-12 and post-secondary educational environments; her focus is on the digital’s pedagogical, relational, epistemological, and ethical implications.

 

Terrie Lynn Thompson is a Lecturer of Digital Media in The Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling, UK. Her research explores how professional work-learning practices are changing globally with the integration of web and mobile technologies. She is editor of the ProPEL Matters blog that critically debates professional practice and learning.