The tools we use to connect also serve to construct our social realities. This creates a fascinating tension between the built-in political values of our digital architectures and the collective norms we develop to navigate them.

In this episode, we unpack the academic foundations of how digital platforms mediate human-to-human contact. We move away from short-lived tech features to discuss how mediation co-shapes our subjectivity, altering how we view ourselves and construct our shared world.

• The concept of multi-stability, shown by how tools like typewriters evolved from assistive devices for the disabled to mainstream cultural assets.
• The distinction between embodiment relations, like speaking on a phone, and hermeneutic relations, like reading an MRI scan.
• Why physical and digital architectures, such as bridge ...