Michele White

Touch Screen Theory

Digital Devices and Feelings

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Touchscreens are key elements of people's everyday lives but critical frameworks for addressing these devices and the associated promises of engagement and embodied experiences are still wanting. White proposes methods for studying touchscreens and digital engagements and expanding a variety of research areas, including studies of digital and Internet cultures, hardware, interfaces, media and screens, and popular culture"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 229mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780262544689
• ISBN-10: 0262544687
• Artikelnr.: 64223003

Autorenporträt

Michele White is Professor of Internet and New Media Studies at Tulane University. She is the author of numerous books, including The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Touchscreen That "fills the hand": Physically Touching
and Emotionally Feeling Devices 1
1 The "iPhone fingernail problem": The Gender Scripts of Capacitive Phones
33
2 The "interface, represented as a skin": Oleophobic Coatings, Touchscreen
"Scars," and "Naked" Devices 73
3 The "heart of social media": Configuring Love Buttons, Hearting, and
Members' Gender and Feelings 113
4 Screen "Tapping into your heart": Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
Videos, ASMRtists, and Tactile Addresses 151
Afterword: Being "less touchy-feely" During the Pandemic: Socially
Distancing and Emotionally Feeling 179
Notes 203
Selected Bibliography 257
Index 271