Digital Reality: The Body and Digital Technologies 1501341057, 9781501341052
As contemporary scholars, journalists, and commentators have indicated, mobile digital devices promote a constant shift
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Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
What is digital reality?
Sociocultural matters
Current scholarship
Embodiment
Animism
Establishing boundaries
Post-digital
Overview of chapters
Chapter 1: Phenomenological explorations of digital reality
Exploring phenomena
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938)
Cartesian Meditations
Bracketing
Things-in-themselves
Martin Heidegger
‘The thing’
Phenomenological reflection
Poiesis
The tablet computer
Concluding remarks
Chapter 2: Digital communication technologies and conversation
Face-to-face conversation
Communication
Scope
Implications
Look Up
Orality
An empty chair
Speaking with machines
Concluding remarks
Chapter 3: Writing and digital technologies
Writing as a sensory experience
Themes
Studies of written communication
Marks, traces and meaning
The aleph-beth
The alphabet
The Platonic Ideal
Socratic dialogue
Printing
Memory, learning and concentration
Contemporary technology, writing and the body
Concluding remarks
Chapter 4: Movement, meaning and digital technologies
Studying movement and meaning
Movement scholarship
Movement development
Agency
Movement, thinking and knowing
Digital technologies, the hand and movement dynamics
Flow
Phone zombies
Kinaesthesia
Concluding remarks
Chapter 5: Movement analysis and digital technologies
Significance and scope
Self-tracking scholarship
Quantifying space and time
Arithmetic
The limits of quantification
Choreography
Laban’s movement analysis
Concluding remarks
Chapter 6: Presence, immersion and virtual reality
Spatiality and virtual reality
Presence
Presence questionnaires
Immersion
Contemporary studies of virtual reality
Virtual bodies
Virtual reality and nature
Rooted in the world
Concluding remarks
Chapter 7: The Peripheral, metaphor and the body
William Gibson
The Peripheral
Movement and metaphor
Haptics
Peripherals
Centred and grounded
Concluding remarks
Conclusion
References
Index
