LEADER 05039nam 22006854a 450 001 9910814924103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $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 $a20060215d2006 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 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dc2006 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. 327 $aIntro -- Illustrations -- The Body, the Screen, and Representations: An Introduction to Theories of Internet Spectatorship -- 1 Making Computer and Internet Spectators -- 2 Visual Pleasure through Textual Passages: Gazing in Multi-user Object-oriented Settings (MOOs) -- 3 Too Close to See, Too Intimate a Screen: Men, Women, and Webcams -- 4 The Aesthetic of Failure: Confusing Spectators with Net Art Gone Wrong -- 5 Can You Read Me? Setting-specific Meaning in Virtual Places (VP) -- 6 This Is Not Photography, This Is Not a Cohesive View: Computer-facilitated Imaging and Fragmented Spectatorship -- Afterword The Flat and the Fold: A Consideration of Embodied Spectatorship -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- 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 $aArt and technology 606 $aCyberfeminism 606 $aHuman-computer interaction 606 $aInternet$xPhilosophy 615 0$aArt and technology. 615 0$aCyberfeminism. 615 0$aHuman-computer interaction. 615 0$aInternet$xPhilosophy. 676 $a004.67/8 700 $aWhite$b Michele$0604263 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814924103321 996 $aThe body and the screen$94195079 997 $aUNINA