Table des matières
Introduction
Problematizing our Relations with Media Technologies
- Situating the Research
- Media Literacy
- Four Approaches to Media Literacy
- Benefits of Expanding Media Literacy
- The Non-neutrality of Technological Relations
- Technological Mediation as Relation: A Micro Approach
- Media Environments: A Macro Approach
- Which Human Subject?
- Situating Media Literacy with Intrasubjective Mediation
- Research Significance and Design
- Use of Language
- Designing Interdisciplinary Research and a Transdisciplinary Solution
- The Layout of the Chapters
- Concluding Thoughts
Part I. Situating the interdisciplinary concepts
2. Situating Media Literacy
- Communication Beyond the Transmission Model
- Media Literacy Overview
- Education, Literacy, and Agency
- Defining Media Literacy
- Competencies, Concepts, and Questions
- Four Approaches
- Media Arts-Based
- Media Literacy Movement
- Protectionist
- Critical Media Literacy
- Expanding Media Literacy
- The Medium as Non-neutral Environment
- Adding Context via Domestication Theory
- Concluding Thoughts
3. Understanding the Medium Through the Technological Relation
- In Medias Res
- Micro and Macro Approaches
- Postphenomenology and the Technological Relation
- Situating Non-neutral Human-Technology Relations
- Neutrality, Determination, and Agency
- The Relation as Building Block
- Technological Mediation: Four Types
- Sedimentation and Multistability
- Sedimentation’s Impact on Transparency
- Multistability of Technology
- Summary of Postphenomenology
- Media Ecology
- Background
- Media Ecology as a Field of Inquiry
- Defining Media as Environments
- Figure/Ground
- Media Bias
- Technological Determinism and Agency
- Media Ecology in Action: The Gutenberg Parenthesis
- Investigating Print Affordances
- Print Photographs and Digital Images
- Concluding Thoughts
4. The Posthuman: Situating the Subject in Human-Tech Relations
- Humanists and Transhumanists Debating Enhancement
- Convergence of Humans and Technologies
- Humanism and the Enlightenment: An Old Foundation
- Transhumanism: Reasonable or Extreme?
- Reactions to Transhumanism
- A New Foundation for Transhumanism
- The Posthuman Subject
- Historically Situating and Defining Posthumanism
- The Dance of Agency
- Individual to Interdividual to Human Becomings
- Complexity: The Key to Understanding Human Becomings
- Situating Complexity
- Complex or Complicated?
- Connections, not Divisions
- Complex Concepts for Framework
- Open and Nested Systems
- Non-Linear Equilibrium
- Emergence, Resilience, and Sympoiesis
- Complexity and Technology
- Summarizing the Complex Posthuman Subject
- Concluding Thoughts
Part II. Developing a posthuman approach: a framework and instrument
5. Developing the Intrasubjective Mediating Framework
- Situating the Intrasubjective Mediating Framework
- Intrasubjective Mediation
- Why Intra?
- The Intrasubjective Mediating Framework
- Framework Caveats
- The Framework’s Cartography
- Technology and Sociocultural
- Technological Relations: I-Technology-World
- Sociocultural Relations: I-Sociocultural-World
- Body and Mind
- Body Relations: I-Body-World
- Mind Relations: I-Mind-World
- Space and Time
- Space Relations: I-Space-World
- Time Relations: I-Time-World
- Adding Intrasubjective Mediation to the Framework
- (I-ISM) → world
- Intrasubjective Mediation versus ‘I’
- Intrasubjective Mediation: A Dance of Complexity
- The Complexity of Interrelating Relations
- Agency, Education, and Literacy: Understanding Degrees of Influence
- Concluding Thoughts
- Variations on Relations
6. Developing an Instrument to Leverage the Framework
- Creating the Instrument
- Identifying the Multiplicity of Relations
- Mind
- Imagination
- Identity
- Perception/Awareness
- Body
- Time
- Space
- Sociocultural
- Sociocultural -Normativity
- Sociocultural -Language
- Sociocultural - Power/Politics
- Sociocultural -Museum Effect
- Technology
- Intrasubjective Mediation and the Relational Groups
- Mind and ISM
- Body and ISM
- Space and ISM
- Sociocultural and ISM
- Technology and ISM
- Interrelationality
- Complexity
- Generalizing the Framework and Instrument for Media Literacy
- Posthuman Approach Exercise: Learning by Doing
- Step One: Identify
- Step Two: Framework
- Step Three: Pre-assessment
- Step Four: Engage
- Step Five: Identifying and Evaluating Direct Relations
- Step Six: Evaluating Interrelations
- Step Seven: Analyze
- Step Eight: Critical Assessment
- Concluding Thoughts
7. Conclusion
- Summary of Main Findings
- Expanding Media Literacy
- The Human Becoming
- Intrasubjective Mediation: Framework and Instrument
- Strengths and Weaknesses of the Study
- Significance and Implications of Findings
- Limitations of the Study
- Critical Considerations
- Recommendations
- Extrapolating to Other Fields
- Philosophical Posthumanism
- Postphenomenology
- Transhumanism
- Non-Western Cultures
- Final Thoughts
