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Please join us next Thursday at the CAMRI research seminar, University of Westminster.
Ways of Feeling: Exploring Remote Personal Touch Communication
Prof. Carey Jewitt (UCL Knowledge Lab)
Thursday, 15 March
5-7pm
309 Regent Street
Cayley Room
How might touching at a distance transform our experiences of communication and communicative practices and norms? In this presentation, Carey Jewitt will argue that we are at a tipping point for digital communication: moving beyond “ways
of seeing” to include “ways of feeling”.
Much as optical technologies transformed sight and the visual (e.g. from the telescope and microscope, the X-ray, photography, film, computer graphics, MRIs to Google Glass), the rapid expansion in digital touch technologies is set to reconfigure
touch and the tactile in significant ways. With this comes a fundamental shift in forms and modes of communication in digitally co-located and remote interaction. With a speculative focus on personal remote touch communication, across a range of technological
domains, Carey Jewitt will explore the potential of touch-based technologies to re-shape what can be touched, as well as when and how it can be touched, and how this may supplement, heighten, extend and reconfigure how people (and machines) communicate, re-frame
existing touch practices and lead to new touch-based capacities and practices. The centrality of touch to both human experience and communication underpins the need to understand the social consequences of how touch is digitally remediated.
About the speaker
Carey Jewitt is Professor of Learning and Technology and Director of UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London. Her research interests are the development of visual and multimodal research theory and methods, video-based research, and
researching technology-mediated interaction. She has led a number of research projects on methodological innovation most recently MODE ‘Multimodal Methods for Researching Digital Data and Environments’ (ESRC, MODE.ioe.ac.uk) and MIDAS ‘Methodological Innovation
in Digital Arts and Social Sciences’ (ESRC, MIDAS.ioe.ac.uk).
Carey is a founding Editor of the journal Visual Communication (Sage), and her recent publications include Introducing Multimodality (2016) with Bezemer and O’Halloran, The Sage Handbook of Researching Digital Technologies (2014) with Price
and Brown, and The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis (second edition) (2014).
The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.
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