6. Developing an Instrument to Leverage the Framework

The final step in the posthuman approach is to develop the theoretical framework into a pragmatic instrument that can be used to facilitate critical reflection and engagement with media. In order to do so, I return to a museum selfie that I took while conducting a postphenomenological study. It was this experience that inspired my desire to find a more inclusive framework beyond postphenomenology to investigate technological relations. I begin with a description of this foundational event and then investigate the museum selfie through the development of an instrument that helps identify many of the influencing relations that contributed to both my own and the selfie's constitution. From here I propose a generalized instrument and exercise that can be used by media instructors and students. The benefit of the instrument developed in this chapter is how it can help us realize and foreground the many relations that are occurring at any given moment. For media literacy, this allows us to better situate any media or media event that we are interested in investigating, interconnecting the event with the broad spectrum of constituting relations.