Doing Postphenomenology in Cybersecurity Education: A Methodological Invitation

Ryan Straight

doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/KNB2V

Abstract

As the cyber domain grows into each aspect of our lives, so does the need to expand approaches in understanding and researching cybersecurity and cybersecurity education. By focusing on a novel methodology within these fields—postphenomenology—this paper seeks to demonstrate its cyberrelated usefulness and application. At its core, postphenomenology is the study of technological mediation and the myriad ways of uncovering and understanding it and its consequences. In tracing a line from classic phenomenology to the exploration of cyborg technological intentionality, I suggest an applied postphenomenology that addresses calls for holistic and multidisciplinary cybersecurity education. By incorporating postphenomenological methods into cybersecurity pedagogical research and practice, educators and students alike can come to deeper and more meaningful realizations and applications stemming from human-technology-world relations.

Published in the 2023 ISCAP conference proceedings. You can view the associated slide deck here.

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BibTeX citation:

@inproceedings{straight2023,
  author = {Straight, Ryan},
  publisher = {ISCAP},
  title = {Doing {Postphenomenology} in {Cybersecurity} {Education:} {A}
    {Methodological} {Invitation}},
  booktitle = {2023 Proceedings of the ISCAP Conference},
  volume = {9},
  pages = {n5988},
  date = {2023},
  url = {https://iscap.us/proceedings/2023/pdf/5988.pdf},
  doi = {10.17605/OSF.IO/KNB2V},
  issn = {2473-4901},
  langid = {en},
  abstract = {As the cyber domain grows into each aspect of our lives,
    so does the need to expand approaches in understanding and
    researching cybersecurity and cybersecurity education. By focusing
    on a novel methodology within these fields—postphenomenology—this
    paper seeks to demonstrate its cyberrelated usefulness and
    application. At its core, postphenomenology is the study of
    technological mediation and the myriad ways of uncovering and
    understanding it and its consequences. In tracing a line from
    classic phenomenology to the exploration of cyborg technological
    intentionality, I suggest an applied postphenomenology that
    addresses calls for holistic and multidisciplinary cybersecurity
    education. By incorporating postphenomenological methods into
    cybersecurity pedagogical research and practice, educators and
    students alike can come to deeper and more meaningful realizations
    and applications stemming from human-technology-world relations.}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Straight, Ryan. 2023. “Doing Postphenomenology in Cybersecurity Education: A Methodological Invitation.” In 2023 Proceedings of the ISCAP Conference, 9:n5988. ISCAP. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/KNB2V.