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Ethnography of corporeality: A carnal move in educational technology research
Author(s) -
EnriquezGibson Judith
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/bjet.12291
Subject(s) - affordance , materiality (auditing) , ethnography , liminality , sociology , construct (python library) , posthumanism , embodied cognition , materialism , epistemology , aesthetics , anthropology , computer science , human–computer interaction , art , philosophy , programming language
Despite the increasing focus on non‐dualistic and materialist approaches in education technology studies, the materiality of the body has not been adequately examined. Because of the heavy orientation towards affordance, interaction, participation, inclusion and access at the interface or between various spatial and liminal settings, the subject's body has been addressed and analysed as a non‐corporeal construct, primarily at an abstract, theoretical or textual level. This paper intends to complement existing research by proposing a carnal move that would enact an ethnography of corporeality. It will do so by doing two things: first, by drawing from D on I hde's human–technology relations to foreground the body in technology use; and secondly, by adapting M arcel M auss's conceptualisation of body techniques for a carnal methodological move in investigating technology‐enhanced learning and digital literacies.