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(2017) Inhabiting cyberspace and emerging cyberplaces, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Unfolding cyberspace
a phenomenological approach to cyberplace, technology, and community
Tobias Boos
pp. 39-57
In this chapter, a possible phenomenology of the cyberspaces of the World Wide Web is outlined. Recent studies have suggested that concepts of existential phenomenology can provide convincing perspectives on cyberspace that enable a deep understanding of contemporary life, characterised by an increased blending of humans and modern technology . Based on the notions of "coming-to-the-world" coined by Peter Sloterdijk and "inhabiting " from Tim Ingold , this chapter shows how we can conceive of the emergence of cyberplace s as a by-product of the process of unlocking cyberspace by inhabiting the contemporary world. This perspective also incorporates arguments from Actor-Network Theory and can be combined with up-to-date concepts of community as they relate to technological changes in the globalised world.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58454-6_3
Full citation:
Boos, T. (2017). Unfolding cyberspace: a phenomenological approach to cyberplace, technology, and community, in Inhabiting cyberspace and emerging cyberplaces, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 39-57.