LEADER 04423oam 22006854a 450 001 9910777514903321 005 20190503073335.0 010 $a0-262-29288-2 010 $a1-282-09838-1 010 $a9786612098383 010 $a0-262-28605-X 010 $a1-4237-9030-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000461583 035 $a(OCoLC)70807733 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10173716 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113528 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11140770 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113528 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10098969 035 $a(PQKB)10364533 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338654 035 $a(OCoLC)70807733$z(OCoLC)228172348$z(OCoLC)228172349$z(OCoLC)473715819$z(OCoLC)568000772$z(OCoLC)648226957$z(OCoLC)743198272$z(OCoLC)756542851$z(OCoLC)815776521$z(OCoLC)888657555$z(OCoLC)961523036$z(OCoLC)962588853$z(OCoLC)988501095$z(OCoLC)991937405$z(OCoLC)992086075$z(OCoLC)1037501210$z(OCoLC)1037916593$z(OCoLC)1038591538$z(OCoLC)1055314248$z(OCoLC)1058077145$z(OCoLC)1062904127$z(OCoLC)1081249826$z(OCoLC)1083602799 035 $a(OCoLC-P)70807733 035 $a(MaCbMITP)1639 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338654 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10173716 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL209838 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000461583 100 $a20060802d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe body and the screen $etheories of Internet spectatorship /$fMichele White 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-23249-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-296) and index. 330 $a"Internet and computer users are often represented onscreen as active and empowered--as in AOL's striding yellow figure and the interface hand that appears to manipulate software and hypertext links. In The Body and the Screen Michele White suggests that users can more properly be understood as spectators rendered and regulated by technologies and representations, for whom looking and the mediation of the screen are significant aspects of engagement. Drawing on apparatus and feminist psychoanalytic film theories, art history, gender studies, queer theory, critical race and postcolonial studies, and other theories of cultural production, White conceptualizes Internet and computer spectatorship and provides theoretical models that can be employed in other analyses. She offers case studies and close visual and textual analysis of the construction of spectatorship in different settings. White shows that despite the onscreen promise of empowerment and coherence (through depictions of materiality that structure the experience), fragmentation and confusion are constant aspects of Internet spectatorship. She analyzes spectatorship in multi-user object-oriented settings (MOOs) by examining the textual process of looking and gazing, contrasts the experiences of the women's webcam spectator and operator, describes intentional technological failures in net art, and considers ways in which traditional conceptions of artistry, authorship, and production techniques persist in Internet and computer settings (as seen in the creation of virtual environment avatars and in digital imaging art). Finally, she analyzes the physical and psychic pain described by male programmers in Internet forums as another counternarrative to the common tale of the empowered user. Spectatorship, White argues, not only affects the way specific interfaces are understood but also helps shape larger conceptions of self and society."--Publisher's website. 606 $aInternet$xPhilosophy 606 $aCyberfeminism 606 $aArt and technology 606 $aHuman-computer interaction 610 $aCULTURAL STUDIES/Psychoanalytic Studies 610 $aCULTURAL STUDIES/Postcolonial Studies 610 $aDIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory 615 0$aInternet$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aCyberfeminism. 615 0$aArt and technology. 615 0$aHuman-computer interaction. 676 $a004.67/8 700 $aWhite$b Michele$f1962-$01276915 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777514903321 996 $aThe body and the screen$93678189 997 $aUNINA