Graduation Semester and Year
2016
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in English
Department
English
First Advisor
Timothy Richardson
Abstract
The smart phone, or mobile device, holds a preeminent role in a technologically advanced society. These devices allow for connection, productivity, and distraction, and in doing so create new anxieties and underscore old ones. By tracing the provenance of this artifact, we see how our relationship with mobile devices amplifies our relationship with technology as a whole. This thesis examines the development of the mobile device from the viewpoints of social constructivism and technogenesis to illustrate how our increasing intimacy with these devices is part of a long-standing pattern of co-evolution between humans and the technologies they create.
Keywords
Mobile device, Technogenesis, Technology, New materialism, Philosophy of technology, Social constructivism, Cyborgs, Subject-object relationship
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Morrow, Joel Mathew, "THE WORLD IN THE SCREEN: HOW THE MOBILE DEVICE SYMBOLIZES TECHNOGENESIS" (2016). English Theses. 99.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/english_theses/99
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington