Abstract
Recently, in response to an empirical turn within the discipline, ethnographic methodologies have become even more fundamental to cultural studies research. Among those methodologies is the one we describe here in its application to the study of portable communication technologies: cultural phenomenology. In its phenomenological focus, our approach is framed by the premise that every human-technology relation is a body-technology relation, invoking certain kinds of being-in-the-world, as well as as of knowing and making that world.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches |
Editors | Phillip Vannini |
Place of Publication | U.S. |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 145-156 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781433103025 |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- mobile communication systems
- phenomenology