Book contents
- The Comfort of Screens
- The Comfort of Screens
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Foreword to The Comfort of Screens
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Comfort of Screens
- 2 Literacy in Postdigital Times
- 3 People on Screens
- 4 People with Screens
- 5 Placing Screens
- 6 Screens and Time
- 7 People at Screens
- 8 People against Screens
- 9 Seeking Postdigital Higher Grounds
- References
- Index
- Copyright Acknowledgements
5 - Placing Screens
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 April 2025
- The Comfort of Screens
- The Comfort of Screens
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Foreword to The Comfort of Screens
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Comfort of Screens
- 2 Literacy in Postdigital Times
- 3 People on Screens
- 4 People with Screens
- 5 Placing Screens
- 6 Screens and Time
- 7 People at Screens
- 8 People against Screens
- 9 Seeking Postdigital Higher Grounds
- References
- Index
- Copyright Acknowledgements
Summary
This chapter begins with a reflection of the Find My iPhone app, employing it as an example of how physical and digital place can exist simultaneously and in interconnected ways. Afterwards, it turns to explaining the notion of physical-digital place as parallel universes, subsequently unravelling this idea through strands taken from across crescent voice interviews. The emphasis of this chapter is on place, or more specifically the intermingling of physical and digital places, whereby the commitments, practices, and imaginaries of screens can shape one’s understandings of place and allow one to form a consciousness that is a kind of home. By employing notions of the ‘digital home’, social imaginaries, digital twins, and a postdigital concept of community, this chapter unsettles the binary between digital and physical spaces, employing Dezuanni’s definition of community to help get at the ways that online spaces feel like home. It explores these ideas primarily through crescent voices and their experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic, an event which lent more prominence to practices such as digital twins.
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- The Comfort of ScreensLiteracy in Postdigital Times, pp. 88 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025