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Haptic play: Rethinking media cultures and practices
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Haptic play: Rethinking media cultures and practices

I. Richardson and L. Hjorth
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol.25(1), pp.3-5
2018
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Abstract

The intimate, tactile, social and playful nature of mobile interfaces has become a key focus of media research over the past decade. As a number of theorists claim, we are currently in the midst of a cultural shift towards a lusory sensibility, or a playful turn in our social and media practices; in his contribution to MIT’s Playful Thinking Series, Miguel Sicart (2014) suggests that a ‘playful attitude’ now characterizes much of contemporary media...

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6 Social Sciences
6.185 Communication
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