Price, S;
Jewitt, C;
(2025)
MOBILE MEDIA: Changing Touch Practices.
In: Goggin, Gerard and Hjorth, Larissa, (eds.)
The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media.
(pp. 422-431).
Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group: New York, NY, US.
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Abstract
This chapter explores what touch means for digital communication. It presents two case studies on how digital touch technologies reconfigure touch experiences and practices. The first explores remote touch messaging through a tactile communication device. The second explores the reconfiguring of “knowing touch” and new spatiality practices through a wearable bio-sensing device. The chapter draws out and discusses three emergent themes on digital touch practices for mobile communication: the reconfiguring of the dynamics of touch, how the body is (or is not) brought into the touch communication space and how both a sense of connection and disconnection are made manifest.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | MOBILE MEDIA: Changing Touch Practices |
| ISBN-13: | 9781003166016 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003166016 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003166016-50 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Communication Studies, Humanities, Social Sciences |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10218876 |
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