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- Moves discussions in the area from a focus on issues surrounding objects to an investigation on how individuals interact with objects themselves and the relationship that creates
- Applies Heidegger’s inquiries to mobile media technology use through material drawing upon methodologies and thinking from anthropology, cultural geography, and phenomenological philosophy
- Explores how use of mobile media technologies, particularly for access to social media sites, can reveal fundamental aspects of what it means to be human in the western technological age, particularly with an eye towards community and the presentation of self
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book intertwines phenomenological fieldwork with a wide range of Heidegger’s writings to explore how our everyday uses of mobile media technologies permit a unique avenue to rediscover poiēsis, our creative cultivation that is simultaneously a bringing forth, a revealing. Shining a light on poiēsis better allows us to see how human beings are, at their core, dwellers that disclose worlds and cultivate meaning. In our chaotic modern world, our ability to appreciate this foundational feature of our existence seems to be fading from view. Such forgetting has fractured our confidence; we increasingly question, doubt, and struggle with what unfolds before us. This book thus argues that we ought to look towards our intimate and recursive mobile media practices as the avenue for which we can revitalize poiēsis, as doing so allows us a purview into how we are always situated in a meaningful locale, playing an imperative role in its continued cultivation.
Reviews
“This book is a good recommendation for those looking into mobile technology in relation to creative abilities.” (Rustie Anglin, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 51 (1-2), January-June, 2019)
“Battin’s is a new and distinctive voice for phenomenological media studies. With particular reference to Heidegger’s philosophy, but also citing a range of phenomenologically inspired work in the humanities and social sciences, Battin focuses on matters of dwelling in this exploration of the everyday uses of mobile media technologies.” (Shaun Moores, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom)Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Justin Michael Battin
About the author
Justin Michael Battin is Assistant Professor of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His research interests include media anthropology, the philosophy of technology, and Heidegger’s phenomenology, all of which have culminated to provide the foundation for this book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobile Media Technologies and Poiēsis
Book Subtitle: Rediscovering How We Use Technology to Cultivate Meaning in a Nihilistic World
Authors: Justin Michael Battin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59797-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59796-6Published: 01 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86704-5Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59797-3Published: 16 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 167
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Cultural Theory, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Technology, Cultural Anthropology