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Researching a Posthuman World: Interviews with Digital Objects
Catherine Adams
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Hardback. Num Pages: 139 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; JHBC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 219 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
139
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137571618
SKU
V9781137571618
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Ref
99-15
About Catherine Adams
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 ... Read more
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