Interface Frictions by Neta Alexander

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Part of Sign Storage Transmission series

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Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms such as playback speed, autoplay, and night mode, reshape, condition, and break our bodies.

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Interface Frictions by Neta Alexander

Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms such as playback speed, autoplay, and night mode, reshape, condition, and break our bodies.

“Honing its attention on design features, rather than the sprawling scale of platforms or software, this brilliant book points the way to a new media studiesNeta Alexander offers critical theories of refresh, playback speed, autoplay, and Night Shift, foregrounding the ways these seemingly transparent media functions configure and debilitate their users. The book does not end with this diagnosis - rather, Alexander delves into the ‘interface frictions’ experienced (and sometimes encouraged) by disabled and other edge users, finding at this juncture further sources of critique and ‘alternate imaginings of digitality.’” - Mara Mills, Director, New York University Center for Disability Studies

“Our bodies are breaking from the strain of being always online. But our debility, Interface Frictions shows, is no accident; it is the intentional result of design decisions to extract profit from us. Neta Alexander’s book is both a passionate manifesto and an incisive history of streaming media retold from the impaired or ‘nonaverage’ user’s perspective. It points us to the ways that access and disability can be reimagined and to the creative strategies by which we might steal back the time to rest and survive.” - Tung-Hui Hu, author of Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection

Neta Alexander is Assistant Professor of Film and Media at Yale University and coauthor of Failure.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781478032168
ISBN 10	1478032162
Title	Interface Frictions
Author	Neta Alexander
Series	Sign Storage Transmission
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2025-08-22
Number of pages	232
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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