Search for dissertations about: "postphenomenology"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word postphenomenology.

  2. 1. Impure vision : American staged art photography of the 1970s

    Author : Moa Goysdotter; Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; vision; phenomenology; postphenomenology; visuality; Lucas Samaras; Arthur Tress; Duane Michals; Les Krims; staged photography; art photography; history of photography; 20th century photography; photography from the 1970s; American photography;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore how American staged art photographers in the 1970s problematized a traditional, visualist approach to the photograph as mediator or interface between human subject and reality, which had been present in the straight photography that had dominated American art photography from the early decades of the twentieth century. Instead of viewing the camera as an objective, optical device and photographs as mechanically reproducible artistic products, the proponents of the new "staged photography" seized the possibilities of conveying holistic life experiences by employing a full range of sensory impressions. READ MORE

  4. 2. Between health and healthcare : a lifeworld perspective on personal informatics

    Author : Robyn Schimmer; Karin Danielsson; Anna Croon Fors; Åsa Hörnsten; Ericka Johnson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; user experience; human-computer interaction; postphenomenology; lifeworld; design informatics; human-computer interaction; människa-datorinteraktion;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the role of technology in digitized life focusing on lived experiences of personal informatics technologies in health and healthcare contexts. The work departs from an interest in how digital technologies affects us as individuals in contemporary life. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Technopolitics of Compassion : A Postphenomenological Analysis of the Digital Mediation of Global Humanitarianism

    Author : Daniel Møller Ølgaard; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; humanitarianism; digital media; technopolitics; postphenomenology; mediation theory; power; materiality; imaginaries; algorithms; social media; virtual reality; apps;

    Abstract : Humanitarian organisations are central actors in the mediation of humanitarian disasters as objects of public, political and moral concern. Consequently, if we want to understand this key dynamic of world politics we have to understand how aid organisations use media. READ MORE