Sociality and Embodiment: Online Communication During and After Covid-19
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Sociality and Embodiment : Online Communication During and After Covid-19. / Osler, Lucy; Zahavi, Dan.
In: Foundations of Science, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023, p. 1125-1142.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Sociality and Embodiment
T2 - Online Communication During and After Covid-19
AU - Osler, Lucy
AU - Zahavi, Dan
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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 encouraging us to embrace the replacement of face-to-face encounters with technologically mediated ones. Yet, as philosophers of technology have highlighted, technology can transform the situations we find ourselves in. Drawing insights from the phenomenology of sociality, we consider how digitally-enabled forms of communication and sociality impact our experience of one another. In particular, we draw attention to the way in which our embodied experience of one another is altered when we meet in digital spaces, taking as our focus the themes of perceptual access, intercorporeality, shared space, transitional spaces, and self-presentation. In light of the way in which technological mediation alters various dimensions of our social encounters, we argue that digital encounters constitute their own forms of sociality requiring their own phenomenological analysis. We conclude our paper by raising some broader concerns about the very framework of thinking about digitally and non-digitally mediated social encounters simply in terms of replacement.
AB - 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 encouraging us to embrace the replacement of face-to-face encounters with technologically mediated ones. Yet, as philosophers of technology have highlighted, technology can transform the situations we find ourselves in. Drawing insights from the phenomenology of sociality, we consider how digitally-enabled forms of communication and sociality impact our experience of one another. In particular, we draw attention to the way in which our embodied experience of one another is altered when we meet in digital spaces, taking as our focus the themes of perceptual access, intercorporeality, shared space, transitional spaces, and self-presentation. In light of the way in which technological mediation alters various dimensions of our social encounters, we argue that digital encounters constitute their own forms of sociality requiring their own phenomenological analysis. We conclude our paper by raising some broader concerns about the very framework of thinking about digitally and non-digitally mediated social encounters simply in terms of replacement.
U2 - 10.1007/s10699-022-09861-1
DO - 10.1007/s10699-022-09861-1
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36212516
VL - 28
SP - 1125
EP - 1142
JO - Foundations of Science
JF - Foundations of Science
SN - 1233-1821
IS - 4
ER -
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