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Touching and Being Touched: Tactility of the Screens, Images and Viewers

Author(s): Piotr Celiński
Subject(s): Media studies, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: tactility of the screens;digital media environment;contemporary media culture
Summary/Abstract: The article is a media studies analysis that focuses on the concept of tactility and the tactile in relation to forms of media and imaginaries driving it within the switch from analogue to digital media environment. Starting with a map of possible theoretical frameworks conceptualizing main categories, by raising questions regarding cultural consequences, shapes and meaning of tactile actions and technologies, it concludes with analysis of possible consequences of tactility for contemporary media culture.

  • Page Range: 348-377
  • Page Count: 30
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Language: Polish