Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gbm5v Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T05:48:18.686Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Chapter 9 - Minimizing the Impact Technology Has on Interviewer–Interviewee Rapport

An Existential-Phenomenological Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

By
Patrick M. Whitehead  and
Gary Senecal
Edited by
Paul M.W. Hackett ,
Christopher M. Hayre ,
Dave Muller ,
Marcia Scherer  and
Ava Gordley-Smith
Paul M.W. Hackett
Affiliation:
Emerson College, Boston
Christopher M. Hayre
Affiliation:
The University of Canberra
Dave Muller
Affiliation:
Suffolk University, Massachusetts
Marcia Scherer
Affiliation:
University of Rochester Medical Center, New York
Ava Gordley-Smith
Affiliation:
University of Suffolk
Get access

Summary

Many midcentury continental philosophers, most notably Martin Heidegger (1889--1976), were skeptical about and critical of using technology to mediate human activities. Telephones and computers not only simplify communication, they transform communication (and humans along with it). Postphenomenology is an emerging qualitative research group that examines the transformation of humans by technology. Led by the American philosopher Don Idhe, postphenomenologists maintain that this change is neither bad nor good. Martin Heidegger, however, around whom new and exciting healthcare research is being done, would disagree. There is no discovery without a simultaneous covering. The authors examine whether something of importance is, indeed, covered up when qualitative researchers rely on technology. A three-year international qualitative study on PTSD with active-duty military, which relied heavily on technology, is used to examine the strengths and weaknesses of combining technology with phenomenological healthcare research.

Keywords

Martin Heideggerexistential phenomenologyinterviewingqualitative researchvideo conferencing
Type
Chapter
Information
The Future of Qualitative Research in Healthcare
The Role and Management of Digital Methods
 , pp. 125 - 140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Aho, K. (2018). Existential medicine: Essays on health and illness. Rowman & Littlefield.Google Scholar
Boss, M. (1979). Existential foundations of medicine and psychology (Conway, S. & Cleaves, A., Trans.). Jason Aronson.Google Scholar
Brink, P. J. (2000). Series editor’s foreword. In Cohen, M. Z., Kahn, D. L., & Steeves, R. H. (Eds.). Hermeneutic phenomenological research: A practical guide for nurse researchers, vii–viii. SAGE.Google Scholar
Capra, F. (2007). The science of Leonardo: Inside the mind of the great genius of the Renaissance. Doubleday.Google Scholar
Ellul, J. (1964). The technological society. Vintage Books.Google Scholar
Gadamer, H. G. (1996). Enigma of health: The art of healing in a scientific age (Gaiger, J. & Walker, N., Trans.). Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
Heidegger, M. (1962 [1927]). Being and time. Harper.Google Scholar
Heidegger, M. (1977). The question concerning technology (Lovitt, W., Trans.). Harper & Rowe.Google Scholar
Heidegger, M. (2001). Zollikon seminars: Protocols – conversations – letters. Boss, M. (Ed.). (F. Mayr & R. Askay Trans.). Northwestern University Press.Google Scholar
Heidegger, M. (2004). What is called thinking? (J. G. Gray, Trans.). Harper Perennial.Google Scholar
Heidegger, M. (2008). Being and time (Macquarrie, J. and Robinson, E. Trans.). Harper Perennial.Google Scholar
Heidegger, M. (2017). Gesamtausgabe: Zollikoner seminare. Trawny, P. (Ed.). Verlag Vittorio Klosterman.Google Scholar
Husserl, E. (1970). The idea of phenemenology. Nijhoff.Google Scholar
Ihde, D. (1990). Technology and the lifeworld: From garden to earth. Indiana University Press.Google Scholar
Ihde, D. (2012). Listening and voice: Phenomenologies of sound (2nd ed.). SUNY Press.Google Scholar
Illich, I. (2000). Limits to medicine: Medical nemesis, the expropriation of health. Marion Boyars Publishers.Google Scholar
Kleinman, A. (1986). The illness narratives: Suffering, healing, and the human condition. Basic Books.Google Scholar
Laverty, S. M. (2003). Hermeneutic phenomenology and phenomenology: A comparison of historical and Methodological Considerations. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2(3), 21–35. https://doi.org/10.1177/160940690300200303.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Masters, W. H., & Johnson, V. E. (1966). Human sexual response. Little, Brown, & Co.Google Scholar
O’Neal Irwin, S. (2016). Digital media: Human-technology connection. Lexington Books.Google Scholar
Rosenberger, R., & VerBeek, P. (2015). Postphenomenological investigations: Essays on human-technology relations. Lexington Books.Google Scholar
Senecal, G., & McDonald, M. C. (2021). American and NATO veteran reintegration: The trauma of social isolation and cultural chasms. Lexington Books.Google Scholar
Speigelberg, H. (1967). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-010-1670-4_13, 219–241.Google Scholar
Slatman, J. (2018). Reclaiming embodiment in medically unexplained physical symptoms, in Aho, K. (Ed.). Existential medicine: Essays on health and illness, Rowman & Littlefield, 101–114.Google Scholar
Svenaeus, F. (2018). Heidegger’s philosophy of technology and the perils of medicalization. In Aho, K. (Ed.). Existential medicine: Essays on health and illness. Rowman & Littlefield, 131–144.Google Scholar
Szasz, T. (2007). The medicalization of everyday life. Syracuse University Press.Google Scholar
Watson, J. (1930). Behaviorism. W. W. Norton & Co.Google Scholar
Wellner, G. (2015). A postphenomenological inquiry of cell phones: Genealogies, meanings, and becoming. Lexington Books.Google Scholar
Whitehead, P. (2019). Existential health psychology: The blind-spot in healthcare. Palgrave Macmillan.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whitehead, P. (2021). Applying Heidegger to case study research in the medical and social sciences. The Qualitative Report, 26(10), 3014–3028.Google Scholar
Whitehead, P., & Groth, M. (2019). Resituating humanistic psychology: Finding meaning in an age of medicalization, digitization, and identity politics. Lexington Books.Google Scholar
van Manen, M. (2016). Researching lived experience: Human science for an action sensitive pedagogy. Routledge.Google Scholar
van Manen, M. (2019). Rebuttal: Doing phenomenology on the things. Qualitative Health Research, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732319827293CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zahavi, D. (2018). Getting it quite wrong: Van Manen and Smith on phenomenology. Qualitative Health Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732318817547.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zahavi, D. (2019). The practice of phenomenology: The case of Max van Manen. Nursing Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12276.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×