Journal article
Concealing screens: Consent, control and the desiring user
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Vol.10(2)
2010
Abstract
This article traces the contemporary cultural history of consent to information control. It argues that in order to begin to understand why people consent to the loss of control over their digital devices we need to see users as desiring subjects positioned at a cultural moment where the digital information screen has been enlisted as a central driver of both utility and pleasure, but where its architectural ability for additional functional control remains obscured.
Details
- Title
- Concealing screens: Consent, control and the desiring user
- Authors/Creators
- K. Best (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Vol.10(2)
- Identifiers
- 991005540417407891
- Copyright
- 2010 The Author
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media, Communication and Culture
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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