Touch Screen Theory by Michele White - ISBN: 9780262544689
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Touchscreens: Where technology’s touch obscures lived experience, gender, and power.

Touch Screen Theory

Digital Devices and Feelings

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    15 December 2022

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Summary

Technology companies claim to connect people through touchscreens, but by conflating physical contact with emotional sentiments, they displace the constructed aspects of devices and women and other oppressed individuals’ critiques of how such technologies function. Technology companies and device designers correlate touchscreens and online sites with physical contact and emotional sentiments, promising unmediated experiences in which the screen falls away in favor of visceral materiality and …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262544689
ISBN-10:0262544687
Author:Michele White
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:15 December 2022
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Michele White

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.

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