Touch Screen Theory by Michele White
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 connections. While touchscreens are key elements of most people's everyday lives, critical frameworks for understanding the embodied experiences of using them are wanting. In Touch Screen Theory, Michele White focuses on the relation between physically touching and emotionally feeling to recenter the bodies and identities that are empowered, produced, and displaced by these digital technologies and settings. Drawing on detailed cases and humanities methods, White shows how and why gender, race, and sexuality should be further analyzed in relation to touchscreen use and design.
White delves into such details as how women are informed that their bodies and fingernails are not a fit for iPhones, how cellphone surfaces are correlated with skin and understood as erotic, the ways social networks use heart buttons and icons to seem to physically and emotionally connect with individuals, how online references to feminine and queer feelings are resisted by many men, and how women producers of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) videos use tactile strategies and touch screens to emotionally bond with viewers. Proposing critical methods for studying touchscreens and digital engagement, Touch Screen Theory expands a variety of research areas, including digital and internet cultures, hardware, interfaces, media and screens, and popular culture.
White, Michele: - Michele White lives in the Puma Hills on the east rim of South Park, Colorado. She is a retired international exploration geologist with a master's degree in Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Ore Deposits and a minor in Biology. She worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in the fossil fish department contributing to paleo-fish kill studies. She owns Tumbling Trout fly shop in Lake George, Colorado and is a certified licensed insured and bonded professional fly fishing guide. She has been fly fishing and rowing a dory with her husband, also a geologist, on the Great Rivers of the West for over 20 years. (They are both certified white water boat handlers). She also serves as V.P. of Education for the Pikes Peak Chapter of Trout Unlimited in Colorado Springs and volunteers on regional conservation projects. About Michele Colorado Trout Unlimited - https: //www.coloradotu.org/blog/2017/12/behind-the-fin-michelle-white Michele in PODCAST: - https: //www.askaboutflyfishing.com/speakers/michele-white/ Michele on Tenkara: - https: //www.tenkarausa.com/myportfolio/michele-white-colorado/
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| ISBN 13 | 9780262544689 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262544687 |
| Title | Touch Screen Theory |
| Author | Michele White |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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