Technology and Touch

Anne Cranny-Francis is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Transforming Cultures Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney. Her books include MultiMedia: Text and Context (2005), Gender Studies: Terms and Debates (2003), The Body in the Text (1995), Popular Culture (1994), Engendered Fictions (1992), and Feminist Fiction (1990).

Contents Preface 1. Touch: an embodied, social and cultural practice 2. Technologies: their role in our everyday lives PART I: Technologies of touch 3. Eye feel: visuality and touch 4. Good vibrations: touch, sound and movement PART II: Technologies that we touch 5. Mouse, screen and console: the capabilities and ethics of touch-enabled technologies 6. From Phantom to haptic cow: technologies that touch back PART III: Technologies that touch us 7. Smart Textiles: clothing makes the (hu)man 8. Prosthetics & Robots: marking the borders of human-technology interaction 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index ?