Carey Jewitt

UCL Institute of Education, London Knowledge Lab, Faculty Member

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I am a Professor of Interaction and Technology, UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London. My research interests are in digitally mediated communication, with a focus on touch, multimodal theory and innovative interdisciplinary research methods. I am PI of the InTouch project (an ERC Consolidator award) and I have led a number of other research projects, most recently:MIDAS: Methodological Innovations in Digital Arts and Social Sciences http://midas.ioe.ac.uk/MODE: Multimodal Methods for Researching Digital Environments (NCRM ESRC) http://mode.ioe.ac.uk/
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The Sage Handbook of Digital Technology Research

The Routledge Hanbook of Multimodal Analysis 2nd Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis

Technology, Literacy, Learning: A Multimodality Approach

A Handbook of Visual Analysis

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Filtering Touch: An Ethnography of Dirt, Danger, and Industrial Robots

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

“Industry 4.0” marks the advent of a new wave of industrial robotics designed to bring increased ... more “Industry 4.0” marks the advent of a new wave of industrial robotics designed to bring increased automation to “extreme” touch practices and enhance productivity. This article presents an ethnography of touch in two industrial settings using fourth generation industrial robots (a Glass Factory and a Waste Management Center) to critically explore the social and sensorial implications of such technologies for workers. We attend to manifestations of dirt and danger as encountered through describing workers’ sensory experiences and identity formation. The contribution of the article is two-fold. The first is analytical through the development of three “filters” to grasp the complexity of the social and sensorial dynamics of touch in situ while tracing dispersed mediating effects of the introduction of novel technologies. The second is empirical, teasing out themes embedded in the sociosensorial dynamics of touch that intersect with gender, ethnicity, and class and relate to the technological mediation of touch.

Taking an Extended Embodied Perspective of Touch: Connection-Disconnection in iVR

Frontiers in Virtual Reality

Bringing touch into VR experiences through haptics is considered increasingly important for user ... more Bringing touch into VR experiences through haptics is considered increasingly important for user engagement and fostering feelings of presence and immersion, yet few qualitative studies have explored users' iVR touch experiences. This paper takes an embodied approach–bringing attention to the tactile-kinaesthetic body–to explore users' wholistic experiences of touch in iVR, moving beyond the cutaneous and tactile elements of “feeling” to elaborate upon themes of movement and kinetics. Our findings show how both touch connections and disconnections emerged though material forms of tactility (the controller, body positioning, tactile expectations) and through “felt proximities” and the tactile-kinaesthetic experience thus shaping the sense of presence. The analysis shows three key factors that influence connection and disconnection, and how connection is re-navigated or sought at moments of experienced disconnection: a sense of control or agency; identity; and bridging between...

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