Yoni Van Den Eede is postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) and part-time assistant research professor at Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).Stacey O. Irwin is associate professor of media and broadcasting at Millersville University of Pennsylvania.Galit Wellner is assistant professor at the NB School of Design, Haifa and adjunct professor at Tel Aviv University.

• Foreword: Shadows and the New MediaDon IhdeAcknowledgementsIntroduction: “What Media Do”Yoni Van Den Eede, Stacey O. Irwin, and Galit WellnerPart 1: Exploring Media Environments with PostphenomenologyChapter One: Mediating (Infra)structures: Technology, Media, Environment Heather WiltseChapter Two: Transparent Media and the Development of Digital HabitsDaniel SusserChapter Three: Body, Technology, and HumanityShoji NagatakiChapter Four: Magic, Augmentations, and Digital PowersNicola LiberatiPart 2: Postphenomenologically Investigating Media CasesChapter Five: Extensions and Concentric Circles: Exploring Transparency and Opacity in Three Media TechnologiesRobert N. SpicerChapter Six: Multimedia Stabilities: Exploring the GoPro ExperienceStacey O. IrwinChapter Seven: Digital Images and Multistability in Design PracticeFernando SecomandiChapter Eight: On the Immersion of E-Reading (Or Lack Thereof)Robert RosenbergerPart 3: Shaping Postphenomenological Media TheoryC

These timely and penetrating essays in the philosophy of technology employ the tools of postphenomenology and pragmatism to explore what media are and what they do. Advancing the work of Marshal McLuhan and Don Ihde, they offer crucial insights into how we are to live in an era when virtually everything mediates our experience.