This essay is a response to Shaun Moores’ commentary on the author’s A GEOGRAPHY OF THE LIFEWORLD, a book that examines the significance of the everyday spaces, places, and environment in peoples’ daily lives (Seamon 1979). The author...
moreThis essay is a response to Shaun Moores’ commentary on the author’s A GEOGRAPHY OF THE LIFEWORLD, a book that examines the significance of the everyday spaces, places, and environment in peoples’ daily lives (Seamon 1979). The author discusses a number of Moores’ concerns, including the role of media in supporting or undermining physical places; the value of phenomenological method for media and communication studies; and the charge that phenomenology is hindered by an essentialist approach that presupposes the presence and significance of invariant existential structures.
Keywords: architecture; digital media; everyday life; experience; media use; phenomenology; physical environment; place; space; placelessness; Merleau-Ponty
