Touch Screen Theory Digital Devices and Feelings

• Hoofdauteur: White, Michele (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Reeks: The MIT Press
• Onderwerpen: Advertising & society; Impact of science & technology on society; body; cellphone; close reading; direct address; embodiment; feel; fingernail; feminism; gender script; hand; Internet; iPhone; online; sensation; skin; tactile; technology; textual analysis
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 devi...