@article{ref1,
title="On the hermeneutics of everyday things: or, the philosophy of fire hydrants",
journal="AI and society",
year="2017",
author="Rosenberger, Robert",
volume="32",
number="2",
pages="233-241",
abstract="It can sometimes be difficult to think about &quot;everyday&quot; objects, those things we are so familiar with that they become taken-for-granted aspects of the backdrop of our world. But what if those objects, despite their everydayness, are politically fraught and call for closer examination? I suggest that insights from two contemporary perspectives, postphenomenology and actor-network theory, are useful for drawing out the experiential, social, and political dynamics of everyday things. In this paper, I review and resituate several key concepts from these two theoretical frameworks and outline a method for using them together for the evaluation of technology. As a guiding example, I explore a paradigmatic everyday device: fire hydrants. Despite their everyday character, hydrants fulfill multiple social roles, some of them loaded with difficult and important political implications.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0951-5666",
doi="10.1007/s00146-016-0674-3",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-016-0674-3"
}