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Record Nr.

UNINA9910624329603321

Autore

White Michele <1962->

Titolo

Touch screen theory : digital devices and feelings / / Michele White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]

ISBN

0-262-37230-4

0-262-37231-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages)

Collana

The MIT Press

Disciplina

004.01/9

Soggetti

Human-computer interaction - Social aspects

Touch screens

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--