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Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers

Published:2022-09-01 Issue: Volume: Page:146144482211139
ISSN:1461-4448
Container-title:New Media & Society
language:en
Short-container-title:New Media & Society

Author:

Leder Mackley Kerstin¹^ORCID,Jewitt Carey¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. UCL Knowledge Lab, Dept. Culture, Communication & Media, IOE Faculty of Education & Society, University College London

Abstract

This article considers newspapers’ role in shaping the sociotechnical imaginaries of touch, and emerging technologies that digitally mediate touch. It examines the discourses of touch and personal relationships at a distance that circulated in major British broadsheet newspapers during the 2020 outbreak of coronavirus disease-19, alongside dominant narratives of touch and remote communication in the previous 5 years. In doing so, the article demonstrates how existing discourses of touch and remote communication intensified during the pandemic, while imaginations of remote touch narrowed. The sociotechnical imaginaries of digital touch matter because they illuminate the kinds of social relations touch technologies are perceived to forge, maintain or deny.

Funder

H2020 European Research Council

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Sociology and Political Science,Communication

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14614448221113922

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