Reconstructing Postman’s Technology Questions for Generative AI : Toward a Posthumanist Media Ecology

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Post-Postmanist questions provide a framework for understanding generative AI as a complex ecological entity shaped by the interrelations of human, non-human, and technological actors. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

Dong-Hoo Lee

doi:10.52874/medsoc.2026.02.34.1.105

February 28, 2026Media & Society

Reconstructing Postman’s Technology Questions for Generative AI : Toward a Posthumanist Media Ecology

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The research aims to critically revisit Postman's technology questions in the context of generative AI and expand them within a posthumanist media ecology framework.
Examine Postman's technology questions through the lens of generative AI.
Reference Hayles' cognitive assemblages theory and Morton’s hyperobject concept.
Propose 'post-Postmanist' questions that explore the ecological relations between human and non-human actors.
Identified that generative AI is not merely a singular algorithm but a complex, hyperobject environment.
Proposed layers of technological understanding: cognitive, interface, infrastructure, and ecological resources.
Highlighted that the conditions of existence encompass human, non-human, and technological interactions.

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Revisits Postman's technology questions to explore generative AI's implications in media ecology, suggesting a posthumanist approach.

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