David Ekdahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 3746933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ekdahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Ekdahl |
| SIGNATURE | EKDAHL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0940-8582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Place Where I Could Breathe Easily”: LGBTQ + Youth on Gaming Worlds as Digital Shelters
This article investigates how LGBTQ + youth cultivate enduring relationships through the cross-platform ecologies surrounding digital games, arguing that these environments function as affective infrastructures of dwelling. Drawing on qualitative interviews with LGBTQ + participants aged 17–25, the study demonstrates that relationships initiated in multiplayer games deepen as they circulate across Discord, Twitch, voice channels, and private mess…
You walk into a tavern: Co-constitutive imagination in dungeons and dragons
This paper introduces co-constitutive imagination as a possible and more robust form of social imagination than those currently articulated in phenomenological literature. Whereas existing accounts - such as collective and shared imagination - emphasise normativity and we-ness, they fall short of capturing how people may in a more robust sense be said to imagine the same objects and worlds in a dynamically sustained way. Drawing on a descriptive …
Between essence and diversity: Challenges for phenomenological Autism research
Written from the perspective of phenomenological philosophy, this article evaluates recent claims that phenomenology has an important contribution to make in redressing the lack of insight into Autistic lived experience. As a philosophical discipline concerned with describing, understanding, and interpreting subjective and intersubjective experience, phenomenology is theoretically well-placed to foreground first-person Autistic perspectives in Au…
Learning to walk and talk (again): What developmental psychology can teach us about online intersubjectivity
Since the advent of the internet, researchers have been interested in the intersubjective possibilities and constraints that digital environments offer users. Some argue that seemingly disembodied digitally-mediated interactions are severely limited when compared to their embodied face-to-face counterparts; others are more optimistic about the possibilities that such technologies afford. Yet, both camps tend towards offering static accounts of on…
The Enhanced Games: A timely injection for the International Olympic Committee
The Enhanced Games, a privately funded sporting megaevent aspiring to rival the Olympic Games, have garnered significant media attention since its public inception in 2023. This attention has primarily been driven by the Enhanced Games' embrace of performance-enhancing drugs. Lost in the public fixation on the event's green-lit drug-use, however, is the fact that the Enhanced Games distance themselves from current Olympic standards in numerous wa…
Expressive Avatars: Vitality in Virtual Worlds
Critics have argued that human-controlled avatar interactions fail to facilitate the kinds of expressivity and social understanding afforded by our physical bodies. We identify three claims meant to justify the supposed expressive limits of avatar interactions compared to our physical interactions. First, “The Limited Expressivity Claim”: avatars have a more limited expressive range than our physical bodies. Second, “The Inputted Expressivity Cla…
From the Gamer’s Dilemma to the Real World: Commentary on Montefiore and Formosa’s “Crossing the Fictional Line: Moral Graveness, the Gamer’s Dilemma, and the Paradox of Fictionally Going Too Far”
The double empathy problem and the problem of empathy: Neurodiversifying phenomenology
The notion that autistic individuals suffer from empathy deficiencies continues to be a widespread assumption, including in many areas of philosophy and cognitive science. In response to this, Damian Milton has proposed an interactional approach to empathy, namely the theory of the double empathy problem. According to this theory, empathy is fundamentally dependent on mutual reciprocity or salience rather than individual, cognitive faculties like…
Social bodies in virtual worlds: Intercorporeality in Esports
As screen-based virtual worlds have gradually begun facilitating more and more of our social interactions, some researchers have argued that the virtual worlds of these interactions do not allow for embodied social understanding. The aim of this article is to examine exactly the possibility of this by looking to esports practitioners' experiences of interacting with each other during performance. By engaging in an integration of qualitative resea…
Both Physical and Virtual: On Immediacy in Esports
This article strives to make novel headway in the debate concerning esports' relationship to sports by focusing on the relationship between esports and physicality. More precisely, the aim of this article is to critically assess the claim that esports fails to be sports because it is never properly "direct" or "immediate" compared to physical sports. To do so, I focus on the account of physicality presented by Jason Holt, who provides a theoretic…
Both Physical and Virtual: On Immediacy in Esports
This article strives to make novel headway in the debate concerning esports' relationship to sports by focusing on the relationship between esports and physicality. More precisely, the aim of this article is to critically assess the claim that esports fails to be sports because it is never properly "direct" or "immediate" compared to physical sports. To do so, I focus on the account of physicality presented by Jason Holt, who provides a theoretic…
The double empathy problem and the problem of empathy: Neurodiversifying phenomenology
The notion that autistic individuals suffer from empathy deficiencies continues to be a widespread assumption, including in many areas of philosophy and cognitive science. In response to this, Damian Milton has proposed an interactional approach to empathy, namely the theory of the double empathy problem. According to this theory, empathy is fundamentally dependent on mutual reciprocity or salience rather than individual, cognitive faculties like…
Social bodies in virtual worlds: Intercorporeality in Esports
As screen-based virtual worlds have gradually begun facilitating more and more of our social interactions, some researchers have argued that the virtual worlds of these interactions do not allow for embodied social understanding. The aim of this article is to examine exactly the possibility of this by looking to esports practitioners' experiences of interacting with each other during performance. By engaging in an integration of qualitative resea…
Both Physical and Virtual: On Immediacy in Esports
This article strives to make novel headway in the debate concerning esports' relationship to sports by focusing on the relationship between esports and physicality. More precisely, the aim of this article is to critically assess the claim that esports fails to be sports because it is never properly "direct" or "immediate" compared to physical sports. To do so, I focus on the account of physicality presented by Jason Holt, who provides a theoretic…
Expressive Avatars: Vitality in Virtual Worlds
Critics have argued that human-controlled avatar interactions fail to facilitate the kinds of expressivity and social understanding afforded by our physical bodies. We identify three claims meant to justify the supposed expressive limits of avatar interactions compared to our physical interactions. First, “The Limited Expressivity Claim”: avatars have a more limited expressive range than our physical bodies. Second, “The Inputted Expressivity Cla…
From the Gamer’s Dilemma to the Real World: Commentary on Montefiore and Formosa’s “Crossing the Fictional Line: Moral Graveness, the Gamer’s Dilemma, and the Paradox of Fictionally Going Too Far”
The double empathy problem and the problem of empathy: Neurodiversifying phenomenology
The notion that autistic individuals suffer from empathy deficiencies continues to be a widespread assumption, including in many areas of philosophy and cognitive science. In response to this, Damian Milton has proposed an interactional approach to empathy, namely the theory of the double empathy problem. According to this theory, empathy is fundamentally dependent on mutual reciprocity or salience rather than individual, cognitive faculties like…
Learning to walk and talk (again): What developmental psychology can teach us about online intersubjectivity
Since the advent of the internet, researchers have been interested in the intersubjective possibilities and constraints that digital environments offer users. Some argue that seemingly disembodied digitally-mediated interactions are severely limited when compared to their embodied face-to-face counterparts; others are more optimistic about the possibilities that such technologies afford. Yet, both camps tend towards offering static accounts of on…
The Enhanced Games: A timely injection for the International Olympic Committee
The Enhanced Games, a privately funded sporting megaevent aspiring to rival the Olympic Games, have garnered significant media attention since its public inception in 2023. This attention has primarily been driven by the Enhanced Games' embrace of performance-enhancing drugs. Lost in the public fixation on the event's green-lit drug-use, however, is the fact that the Enhanced Games distance themselves from current Olympic standards in numerous wa…
You walk into a tavern: Co-constitutive imagination in dungeons and dragons
This paper introduces co-constitutive imagination as a possible and more robust form of social imagination than those currently articulated in phenomenological literature. Whereas existing accounts - such as collective and shared imagination - emphasise normativity and we-ness, they fall short of capturing how people may in a more robust sense be said to imagine the same objects and worlds in a dynamically sustained way. Drawing on a descriptive …
Between essence and diversity: Challenges for phenomenological Autism research
Written from the perspective of phenomenological philosophy, this article evaluates recent claims that phenomenology has an important contribution to make in redressing the lack of insight into Autistic lived experience. As a philosophical discipline concerned with describing, understanding, and interpreting subjective and intersubjective experience, phenomenology is theoretically well-placed to foreground first-person Autistic perspectives in Au…
A Place Where I Could Breathe Easily”: LGBTQ + Youth on Gaming Worlds as Digital Shelters
This article investigates how LGBTQ + youth cultivate enduring relationships through the cross-platform ecologies surrounding digital games, arguing that these environments function as affective infrastructures of dwelling. Drawing on qualitative interviews with LGBTQ + participants aged 17–25, the study demonstrates that relationships initiated in multiplayer games deepen as they circulate across Discord, Twitch, voice channels, and private mess…
Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Digital Games and Media (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (3 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)