Interface frictions : how digital debility reshapes our bodies
Neta Alexander
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
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| Opplysninger | Disabled/Enabled -- Repetition, Reloaded: On Refreshing, Latency, and Frictional Aesthetics -- The Right to Speed Watch (or, When Netflix Discovered Its Blind Users) --Automating Trauma: On Autoplay and the Unbingeable -- Log In, Chill Out": "Horizontal Media," Night Modes, and Sleep Apps -- Digital Debility and the Normalization of Fatigue. - "Merging media theory, science and technology studies, and critical disability studies, Interface Frictions develops a theory of "digital debility:" the slow and often invisible ways in which technologies may harm human bodies. By closely studying four omnipresent design features-refresh, playback speed, autoplay, and the night mode-Neta Alexander argues that online interfaces reshape our relationship with our bodies, our technologies, and each other. These understudied features all assume an able-bodied universal user and, at the same time, push users to ignore their bodily limitations. Interface Frictions demonstrates what might be gained from centering the non-average user, such as blind people who pioneered ways to control the playback speed of media and Netflix subscribers with invisible disabilities like PTSD who successfully pushed the company to redesign its previews autoplay feature. Drawing on artworks, video games, and creative hacking by users with disabilities, Alexander challenges our understanding of media consumption, the attention economy, and the digital interface"--
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| ISBN | 9781478028925. - 9781478032168
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