Book chapter
Cultural phenomenology and the material culture of mobile media
Material culture and technology in everyday life: Ethnographic approaches, pp.145-156
Peter Lang Publishing, Inc
2009
Abstract
Historically, cultural studies scholarship has been fundamentally concerned with the ways that material objects are brought to life within the field of quotidian experience, that is, with how objects are integrated into both symbolic and material practices and take on particular historically and culturally specific meanings. Ethnographic methodologies have long constituted a mainstay of cultural studies research because they facilitate the documentation of the practices of everyday life and the experiences of "real" people in ways that dovetail with the qualitative research emphasis of cultural studies. More recently, however, in response to an empirical turn within the discipline, ethnographic methodologies have become even more fundamental to cultural studies research. Among these methodologies is the one we describe here in its application to the study of portable communication technologies: cultural phenomenology.
Details
- Title
- Cultural phenomenology and the material culture of mobile media
- Authors/Creators
- I. Richardson (Author/Creator)A. Third (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- P. Vannini (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Material culture and technology in everyday life: Ethnographic approaches, pp.145-156
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing, Inc; New York, U.S.A
- Identifiers
- 991005540647507891
- Copyright
- 2009 Peter Lang
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media, Communication and Culture
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publisher URL
- http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=53794
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