WTF?! Covid-19, indignation, and the internet

L Osler - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - Springer
The Covid-19 pandemic has fuelled indignation. People have been indignant about the
breaking of lockdown rules, about the mistakes and deficiencies of government pandemic …

Loneliness and absence in psychopathology

J Krueger, L Osler, T Roberts - Topoi, 2023 - Springer
Loneliness is a near-universal experience. It is particularly common for individuals with (so-
called) psychopathological conditions or disorders. In this paper, we explore the experiential …

Affective Artificial Agents as sui generis Affective Artifacts

M Facchin, G Zanotti - Topoi, 2024 - Springer
AI-based technologies are increasingly pervasive in a number of contexts. Our affective and
emotional life makes no exception. In this article, we analyze one way in which AI-based …

Incels, autism, and hopelessness: affective incorporation of online interaction as a challenge for phenomenological psychopathology

SK Tirkkonen, D Vespermann - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Recent research has drawn attention to the prevalence of self-reported autism within online
communities of involuntary celibates (incels). These studies suggest that some individuals …

Embodiment and agency in a digital world

N Gangopadhyay, A Pichler - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
We are agents and our agency is often best characterized in terms of embodied cognition.
However, this is not to deny that there are cognitively significant ways of agentive …

Unfulfilled habits: on the affective consequences of turning down affordances for social interaction

C Vara Sánchez - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - Springer
Many pragmatist and non-representational approaches to cognition, such as the enactivist,
have focused on the relations between actions, affectivity, and habits from an intersubjective …

(Self-) envy, digital technology, and me

L Osler - Topoi, 2024 - Springer
Using digital technology, in particular social media, is often associated with envy. Online,
where there is a tendency for people to present themselves in their best light at their best …

Technosocial disruption, enactivism, & social media: On the overlooked risks of teenage cancel culture

J Van Grunsven, L Marin - Technology in Society, 2024 - research.tudelft.nl
In a world undergoing rapid, large-scale technological change, the phenomenon of
technosocial disruption is receiving increasing scholarly and societal attention. While the …

[PDF][PDF] Belonging online: rituals, sacred objects, and mediated interactions

L Osler - Feelings of Belonging. Eds. Dolezal L, Petherbridge D …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Social interaction in the online sphere is a common (if not outrightly dominant) part of
people's day to day lives. We use our laptops, phones, and tablets for an ever-expanding …

Clueless loneliness: Loneliness beyond frustrated pro‐attitudes

Q Li - The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract According to Tom Roberts and Joel Krueger's frustrated pro‐attitude account of
loneliness, loneliness is primarily characterized as an affective state in which individuals …