Sociality and embodiment: Online communication during and after Covid-19

L Osler, D Zahavi - Foundations of Science, 2023 - Springer
During the Covid-19 pandemic we increasingly turned to technology to stay in touch with our
family, friends, and colleagues. Even as lockdowns and restrictions ease many are …

Background feelings of belonging and psychological trauma

L Wilde - Psychopathology, 2022 - karger.com
Reports of not feeling understood are frequent in testimonies of psychological trauma. I
argue that these feelings are not a matter of a cognitive failure but rather an expression of …

The rage of lonely men: Loneliness and misogyny in the online movement of “involuntary celibates”(incels)

RR Tietjen, SK Tirkkonen - Topoi, 2023 - Springer
In this article, we investigate the relationship between loneliness and misogyny amongst the
online movement of “involuntary celibates”(incels) that has become widely known through …

Taking empathy online

L Osler - Inquiry, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Despite its long history of investigating sociality, phenomenology has, to date, said little
about online sociality. The phenomenological tradition typically claims that empathy is the …

Engineering affect

J Krueger, L Osler - Philosophical Topics, 2019 - JSTOR
Philosophical work exploring the relation between cognition and the Internet is now an
active area of research. Some adopt an externalist framework, arguing that the Internet …

Social bodies in virtual worlds: Intercorporeality in Esports

D Ekdahl, S Ravn - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - Springer
As screen-based virtual worlds have gradually begun facilitating more and more of our
social interactions, some researchers have argued that the virtual worlds of these …

Extended loneliness. When hyperconnectivity makes us feel alone

L Candiotto - Ethics and Information Technology, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, I analyse a specific kind of loneliness that can be experienced in the
networked life, namely “extended loneliness”. I claim that loneliness—conceived of as …

“An illness of isolation, a disease of disconnection”: Depression and the erosion of we-experiences

L Osler - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Depression is an affective disorder involving a significant change in an individual's
emotional and affective experiences. While the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental …

We-experiences and the maintenance of workplace friendships: Being workplace friends together

S Korber, P Hibbert, L Callagher… - Management …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we are interested in how togetherness in workplace friendships is experienced
in the absence of physical co-presence. We explore practices through which we …

Searching for the metaverse: neuroscience of physical and digital communities

G Riva, BK Wiederhold, F Mantovani - … , Behavior, and Social …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
What distinguishes real-world communities from their online counterparts? Social and
cognitive neuroscience research on social networks and collective intentionality will be used …