Over the past decades, an expanding group of scholars has been developing a novel
approach to the social and cultural roles of technology. Building upon Don Ihde's …

The everyday use of mobile devices is sometimes performed in a minimally conscious
manner (eg, automaticity, habits, impulses), whereas other times it is performed in a highly …

A central question in philosophical and sociological accounts of technology is how the
agency of technologies should be conceived, that is, how to understand their constitutive …

A small handful of recent studies have addressed a phenomenon known as “phantom
vibration syndrome”. This refers to when phone users perceive their device to vibrate …

How should we understand postphenomenological methodology? Postphenomenology is a
research perspective which builds on phenomenological and pragmatist philosophy to …

The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best
and the worst manifestations of the information age. Whether we interact with video games …

Postphenomenology was envisaged to lay bare the black box of technology through a
phenomenological approach. The vision, in this sense, was to identify how technology might …

It can sometimes be difficult to think about “everyday” objects, those things we are so familiar
with that they become taken-for-granted aspects of the backdrop of our world. But what if …

This article explores how the concept of play as a vision of software that establishes new
relations with digital technologies. This article argues that play has a fundamental role in …

This article is an inquiry on the role of play in shaping the cultures of the Information Age. By
applying concepts from Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Information, this paper …