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=Bay, Jennifer and Thomas Rickert."New Media and the Fourfold."= //JAC// 28.1-2 (2008): 207-244. Print.

**Abstract**
New media and its technologies have generated unprecedented forms of communication, community, and interaction. They extend themselves into the everyday life as more than just a set of new, technologically enabled practices; indeed they are coming to constitute new ways of being. Such deep-rooted transformations are also challenging, and a great deal of work in new media, and technology in general, treats its unsettling effects.

Argument
A worthwhile life in the technological age demands that we rediscover existentially important objects and a sense of place. Seeing the world as a deep and interconnected stitchwork of things that lays claims on us, Heidegger argues, stands to recompose our way of being in the world, and thus to transform our relation to technologies.

Key Passages
Pages 209-237.

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