Fabric of Interface : Mobile Media, Design, and Gender, Paperback

by Stephen Monteiro

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Fabric of Interface : Mobile Media, Design, and Gender, Paperback by Monteiro, Stephen, ISBN 026205292X, ISBN-13 9780262052924, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Tracing the genealogy of our physical interaction with mobile devices back to textile and needlecraft culture. For many of our interactions with media, we do not sit at a keyboard but hold a mobile device in our hands. We turn and tilt and stroke and tap, and through these physical interactions with an object we make things: images, links, sites, networks. In The Fabric of Interface, Stephen Monteiro argues that our everyday practice has taken on traits common to textile and needlecraft culture. Our smart phones and tablets use some of the same skills—manual dexterity, pattern making, and linking—required by the handloom, the needlepoint hoop, and the lap-sized quilting frame. Monteiro goes on to argue that the capacity of textile metaphors to describe computing (weaving code, threaded discussions, zipped files, software patches, switch fabrics) represents deeper connections between communication and what has been called “homecraft” or “women's work.” Connecting networked media to practices that seem alien to media technologies, Monteiro identifies handicraft and textile techniques in the production of software and hardware, and cites the punched cards that were read by a loom's rods as a primitive form of computer memory; examines textual and visual discourses that position the image as a malleable fabric acros

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Year: 2025
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780262052924
• Condition: Fine

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