Living with Touchscreens: Haptic Geographies of Home in the Digital Context

Chen Liu

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2023, vol. 113, issue 1, 261-273

Abstract: This article considers haptic—the sense of touch in all its forms—as an assemblage of performative and situated knowledge, multisensory experiences, digital and material relationalities, and everyday practices, that is shaping and shaped by domestic atmospheres and affects. It brings research topics on haptic geographies and geographies of home into the digital context to investigate how routinized domestic practices are digitally organized and managed and how the feelings of being at home are significantly embodied, materially engaged, and socially and affectively charged. The key findings have developed the geographical understanding of home on material, socioemotional, embodied, and multisensory process of home-making by establishing a touching assemblage in the digital context of home. This touching assemblage has affectively created the domestic atmosphere by coalescing practices, materials, apps, global and local platform capitalism, data, bodies, and domestic environments. This article challenges the ocular-centric and Euro-centric way of studying screen-based technologies. It argues for an embodied, affective, and multisensory conceptualization of home in the digital context and a more comprehensive understanding of how the interplay between the human body, space, and technology are implicated in the process of making and remaking geographies of home.

Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/24694452.2022.2080636 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:raagxx:v:113:y:2023:i:1:p:261-273

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/raag21

DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2022.2080636

Access Statistics for this article

Annals of the American Association of Geographers is currently edited by Jennifer Cassidento

More articles in Annals of the American Association of Geographers from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().