Book contents
- The Comfort of Screens
- The Comfort of Screens
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Foreword to The Comfort of Screens
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Comfort of Screens
- 2 Literacy in Postdigital Times
- 3 People on Screens
- 4 People with Screens
- 5 Placing Screens
- 6 Screens and Time
- 7 People at Screens
- 8 People against Screens
- 9 Seeking Postdigital Higher Grounds
- References
- Index
- Copyright Acknowledgements
4 - People with Screens
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 April 2025
- The Comfort of Screens
- The Comfort of Screens
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Foreword to The Comfort of Screens
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Comfort of Screens
- 2 Literacy in Postdigital Times
- 3 People on Screens
- 4 People with Screens
- 5 Placing Screens
- 6 Screens and Time
- 7 People at Screens
- 8 People against Screens
- 9 Seeking Postdigital Higher Grounds
- References
- Index
- Copyright Acknowledgements
Summary
Chapter 4 delves deeper into screen life, adopting an even more human-centred focus, in order to uncover the affective aspect of screen lives. Maintaining an embodied approach, this chapter explores how affective experiences with screens are intentionally elicited through how media is designed, how affect on screens might differ from affect outside screens, and how digital affect can inform practices, and practices induce affect. The chapter begins by defining affect, then digital affect more specifically, before turning to interviewees for their perspectives on how they feel and sense on screens, touching on topics such as micro digital affect, algorithms, and the pandemic. Crescent voices in this chapter help illustrate how digital affect is vital to understanding digital literacy practices and screen lives, especially the double-edged aspects of our affective relationships to screens.
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- The Comfort of ScreensLiteracy in Postdigital Times, pp. 70 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025