The Fabric of Interface
Mobile Media, Design, and Gender
$64.73
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2025
Summary
For many of our interactions with digital media, we do not sit at a keyboard but hold a mobile device in our hands. We turn and tilt and stroke and tap, and through these physical interactions with an object we make things—images, links, sites, networks. In The Fabric of Interface, Stephen Monteiro argues that our everyday digital practice has taken on traits common to textile and needlecraft culture. Our smartphones and tablets use some of the same skills—manual dexterity, pattern m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262052924 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026205292X |
| Author: | Stephen Monteiro |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Stephen Monteiro’s beautifully researched study explores the many historical connections between textiles, coding, gendered practices of domestic labor, other craft-based activity, and the development of computer code. Stressing these dimensions of tactile and dexterous underpinnings, Monteiro makes a strong argument for the political dimensions of embodied labor and physicality that infuse our contemporary relationship with electronic devices. An excellent contribution to the study of the materiality of computing, with a unique viewpoint built on rich archival sources.”–Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Information Studies, UCLA
“This is an elegant treatment of digital culture as intermeshed with textile analogs, always turning toward the materiality and tactility latent within seeming immateriality.”–Branden Hookway, author of Interface
About The Author
Stephen Monteiro
Stephen Monteiro is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal.
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