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 …

This book opens the discussion of what anthropologists do before they write their texts: they
learn to engage with other people's cultural ecologies. In the wake of the new materialism …

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 …

Why does the announcement of a new cellphone model ignite excitement and passion?
Why do most people return home when they forget their cellphones, while only few would …

In scholarly debates, as well as in everyday parlance, we tend to pull science and
technology apart: science gives us theory, and technology applies it. In practice, however …

Latour encourages us to use science-in-the-making as an entry point to understanding
science, because it allows us to see how scientific knowledge is constituted and through …

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 …

The article takes up the notion of artefacts as tools and signs and discusses how socially
assistive robots impact professional work life and professional identities as multistable active …

In current phenomenology of medicine, health is often understood as a state of transparency
in which our body refrains from being an object of explicit attention. In this paper, I argue that …

The emerging school of thought called “postphenomenology” offers a distinct understanding
of the ways that people experience technology usage. This perspective combines insights …