Researching a posthuman world : interviews with digital objects /: interviews with digital objects. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Catherine Adams, Terrie Lynn Thompson.
• Authors: (Associate professor), Adams, Catherine; Thompson, Terrie Lynn
• Contents: Researching a Posthuman World; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction to Posthuman Inquiry; Introduction; Theoretical Framings; The Posthuman; ANT and Beyond; Phenomenology and Its Kin; Phenomenology and ANT Together and Not; Objects and Things, Materialities and Medialities; Interviewing Objects; Interviewing; The Heuristics; Organization of This Book; 2 Attending to Objects, Attuning to Things; Heuristic 1: Gathering Anecdotes; Posthuman Anecdotes Show Things Thinging, and Nonhumans Doing; Constructing Posthuman Anecdotes. Anecdotes as Reassembled Resemblings in the Enactment of Research PracticeHeuristic 2: Following the Actors; Objects Coming to Attention; Following the Hybrids: Co(a)gents; Heuristic 3. Listening for the Invitational Quality of Things; Affordances and Valences; Tones, Melodies and Utterances; Heuristic 4. Studying Breakdowns, Accidents, and Anomalies; Tool (Ready-to-Hand) and Broken Tool (Present-at-Hand); 3 Loosening the Meshwork, Analyzing Medialities and Materialities; Heuristic 5: Discerning the Spectrum of Human-Technology-World Relations; Embodiment Relations; Hermeneutic Relations. Alterity RelationsBackground Relations; A Brief Example; Heuristic 6: Applying the "Laws of Media"; Enhancement; Obsolescence; Retrieval; Reversal; Tetrad; Heuristic 7: Unraveling Translations; Heuristic 8: Tracing Responses and Passages; 4 Interviewing Objects as Co-researchers; The Silent Sway of Software: Coding Researchers; Digital Devices: Who-What's Research?; The Sociomateriality of Data; The Many Social Lives of Data Visualized; Speaking with the Things of Research; 5 Posthuman Confluencies; New Confluencies; Developing a Posthumanist Ethic. Anticipating Changes to Our Thinking, Being, and DoingReckoning with the Deskilling and Upskilling of Work Practices; Dealing with Digital Data; Questioning Digital Politics; In Closing; References; Author Index; Subject Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 001.4; Social sciences; Qualitative research -- Methods; Technology -- Philosophy; Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects; REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers; Qualitative research; Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects; Technology -- Philosophy; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Education -- Computers & Technology; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Library & Information Science -- General; Social research & statistics; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL); Literature: history & criticism; Ethnography; Educational technology; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Communication Studies; Communication studies; Methods (Music); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137571625; 1137571624
• Related ISBNs: 9781137571618
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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