Touch Screen Theory: Digital Devices and Feelings (Paperback)

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Touchscreen That "fills the hand": Physically Touching and Emotionally Feeling Devices 1
1 The "iPhone fingernail problem": The Gender Scripts of Capacitive Phones 33
2 The "interface, represented as a skin": Oleophobic Coatings, Touchscreen "Scars," and "Naked" Devices 73
3 The "heart of social media": Configuring Love Buttons, Hearting, and Members' Gender and Feelings 113
4 Screen "Tapping into your heart": Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response Videos, ASMRtists, and Tactile Addresses 151
Afterword: Being "less touchy-feely" During the Pandemic: Socially Distancing and Emotionally Feeling 179
Notes 203
Selected Bibliography 257
Index 271