Contents
1. Introduction: Problematizing our Relations with Media Technologies1
The Non-neutrality of Technological Relations10
Situating Media Literacy with Intrasubjective Mediation14
Research Significance and Design 15
Part I: Situating the Interdisciplinary Concepts
Communication Beyond the Transmission Model28
3. Understanding the Medium Through the Technological Relation53
Postphenomenology and the Technological Relation57
4. The Posthuman: Situating the Subject in Human-Tech Relations87
Humanists and Transhumanists Debating Enhancement88
Complexity: The Key to Understanding Human Becomings108
Part II: Developing a Posthuman Approach: A Framework and Instrument
5. Developing the Intrasubjective Mediating Framework123
Situating the Intrasubjective Mediating Framework124
The Intrasubjective Mediating Framework 129
Intrasubjective Mediation: A Dance of Complexity154
6. Developing an Instrument to Leverage the Framework165
Identifying the Multiplicity of Relations167
Generalizing the Framework and Instrument for Media Literacy186
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Study 204