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
9 - Seeking Postdigital Higher Grounds
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
The final chapter serves to draw the various strands of the book together, surveying what has been discovered, and expanding on the fundamental arguments of the book. It therefore begins with an analysis of Pinterest, which stands as an emblem of all that literacy means in postdigital times, whether that be sophisticated multimodal practices, durational time, or algorithmic logic. Looking back over the screen lives discussed in the book, including those of the crescent voices and of Samuel Sandor, this chapter crystallizes the personal take on screen lives that the book offers, reiterating the need to ‘undo the digital’ and find the human in, on, with, at, and against screens. It also presents some of the problems scholarship must meet, such as digital inequalities, whether that be in terms of time, awareness, or skill with technology. However, despite the considerable negative forces at work in screen lives which the book has taken care to unravel, this concluding chapter advocates ‘taking the higher ground’ and enacting wonder in interactions with screens.
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- The Comfort of ScreensLiteracy in Postdigital Times, pp. 160 - 175Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025