Digital Media: Human-Technology Connection examines what it is like
to be alive in today's technologically textured world and showcases
specific digital media technologies that makes this kind of world
possible. So much of human experience occurs through digital media
that it is time to pause and consider the process and proliferation
of digital consumption and humanity's role in it through an
interdisciplinary array of sources from philosophy, media studies,
film studies, media ecology and philosophy of technology. When
placed in the interpretive lens of artifact, instrument, and tool,
digital media can be studied in a uniquely different way, as a kind
of technology that pushes the boundaries on production,
distribution and communication and alters the way humans and
technology connect with each other and the world. The book is
divided into two sections to provide overarching definitions and
case study specifics. Section one, Raw Materials, examines
pertinent concepts like digital media, philosophy of technology,
phenomenology and postphenomenology by author Stacey O Irwin. In
Section Two, Feeling the Weave, Irwin uses conversations with
digital media users and other written materials along with the
postphenomenological framework to explore nine empirical cases that
focus on deep analysis of screens, sound, photo manipulation,
data-mining, aggregate news and self-tracking. Postphenomenological
concepts like multistability, variational theory, microperception,
macroperception, embodiment, technological mediation, and culture
figure prominently in the investigation. The aim of the book is to
recognize that digital media technologies and the content it
creates and proliferates are not neutral. They texture the world in
multiple and varied ways that transform human abilities, augment
experience and pattern the world in significant and comprehensive
ways.
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