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The museum selfie is a contemporary phenomenon that captures many issues investigated in this research.
This serves as a practical example of how media literacy can be applied to modern experiences, demonstrating the book's posthuman approach in action.
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I develop the background concepts drawing upon media literacy, postphenomenology, media ecology, and philosophical posthumanism.
This quote highlights the importance of these interdisciplinary approaches in understanding complex human-technology relations.
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While the research I conducted has been interdisciplinary, the solution of the posthuman approach can be considered transdisciplinary
This quote highlights the shift from interdisciplinary research, which draws from multiple fields, to a transdisciplinary solution that transcends disciplinary boundaries. It signifies a deeper synthesis where concepts from different fields merge to form a higher-level framework. All of this helps to illustrate the complexity of understanding human-technology interactions.
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Words are limited in their ability to faithfully represent the intended meaning behind them. In addition, words cut and separate; they are often thought of as individual carriers of meaning.
This quote emphasizes the limitations of language and the conveying of ideas.
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With the onset of mobile communication technology, media are no longer ‘over there’; they are moving toward us, into us.
This quote discusses how technology has evolved from being something external to something integrated into our daily lives. It suggests that media is now deeply embedded in how we perceive and interact with the world, blurring the lines between reality and virtual experiences.
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t is important to focus on how the broader sociocultural relations—such as power, normativity, or language—affect us. There are technological and sociocultural environments all entangled and all contributing to our own constitution.
This quote emphasizes how sociocultural factors like power and language and how they help shape our identity. This quote highlights that we are influenced not just by technology, but by the broader societal context in which we live in. The complexity of how media content and media context intertwine is still a challenge for researchers.
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As humans, we are never standalone beings but always in relation; these relations are non-neutral,8 contributing to the co-constitution of our selves, the specific technology, and the world
Postphenomenology specifically analyzes how humans are always in a relationship with one another and the world. Technology affects not only how we interact but how we perceive the world that we live in.
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contain underlying stereotypes
Messages containing underlying stereotypes are everywhere on digital social media platforms. Teaching people how to interact, understand, empathize, and navigate in our digital world is crucial. People take and change the meaning of different concepts and what they view online, and it becomes a negative concept for people seeking entertainment online.
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access, analysis, evaluation, and content creation’
Access, analysis, evaluation, and content creation are 4 examples of skills that younger people in this generation are there to seek through these social/technological interactions.
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challenge of fully understanding the effects of media technologies on a human subject.
The significance of being taught to fully understand the effects media technologies have on humans is crucial and is highlighted throughout this section.
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‘The companies that created social media and mobile tech have benefited our lives enormously. But even with the best intentions, they are under intense pressure to compete for attention, creating invisible harms for society’ (Center for Humane Technology, n.d.).
This states the impact that digital technologies have on us. The Center for Humane Technology warns us how technologies are seeking attention on numerous platforms which in the end, harms society.
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develop an approach that reflects this interrelationality and that can be an effectively used for media literacy.
The authors approach to research
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relations between humans and technologies led me to an approach in philosophy of technology called postphenomenology
Postphenomenology (new vocabulary word I learned) - the author researches the mediating relations between humans and technologies. Postphenomenology is a term used to describe the authors approach to the philosophy of technology in the digital age we live in.
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In order to accomplish this, a concise transdisciplinary approach comprised of a general framework and specific instrument is proposed.
In order to accomplish a practical analysis without losing theoretical perspective, we must be presented with a framework and transdisciplinary approach to help us structure with media literacies.
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