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Power button: A history of pleasure, panic, and the politics of pushing
R Plotnick
MIT Press, 2018
472018
At the interface: the case of the electric push button, 1880–1923
R Plotnick
Technology and Culture 53 (4), 815-845, 2012
332012
Predicting push-button warfare: US print media and conflict from a distance, 1945–2010
R Plotnick
Media, Culture & Society 34 (6), 655-672, 2012
272012
Force, flatness and touch without feeling: Thinking historically about haptics and buttons
R Plotnick
New Media & Society 19 (10), 1632-1652, 2017
212017
Touch of a Button: Long-Distance Transmission, Communication, and Control at World's Fairs
R Plotnick
Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
102012
Computers, systems theory, and the making of a wired hospital: A history of Technicon Medical Information System, 1964–1987
R Plotnick
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61 (6 …, 2010
92010
Tethered women, mobile men: Gendered mobilities of typewriting
R Plotnick
Mobile Media & Communication, 1-31, 2019
82019
Rubbing readers the wrong way? Materiality and the case of ink rub-off
R Plotnick
American Journalism 32 (2), 221-232, 2015
72015
What happens when you push this?: Toward a history of the not-so-easy button
R Plotnick
Information & Culture 50 (3), 315-338, 2015
42015
Signal and Switch: A Cultural History of the Push-Button Interface
R Plotnick
Northwestern University, 2013
32013
Sticky fingers and smudged sound: vinyl records and the mess of media hygiene
R Plotnick
Critical Studies in Media Communication 39 (4), 260-275, 2022
22022
Communication and Control: Tools, systems, and new dimensions
RE Burnett, K Cummings, V DeFlorio, R Eanes, R Gehl, Z Kimball, ...
Lexington Books, 2015
22015
No sweat: How wet bodies negotiate wearables as repairables
R Plotnick
New Media & Society, 14614448241232143, 2024
2024
You Must Touch It: Touchscreen Hygiene and the Sin of the Smudge
R Plotnick
Convergence 29 (2), 536-551, 2023
2023
The Care and Feeding of the Computer: Imagining Machines’ Preventive Care and Medicine
R Plotnick
Information & Culture 58 (1), 66-83, 2023
2023
Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computers by David Parisi
R Plotnick
Technology and Culture 61 (4), 1229-1231, 2020
2020
The unclean human-machine interface
R Plotnick
Computer Architectures, 114-132, 2019
2019
Dot-com design: The rise of a usable, social, commercial web
R Plotnick
New Media & Society 21 (7), 1660-1661, 2019
2019
Panic Button
R Plotnick
Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions, 45, 2015
2015
Cancertainment: How Comics and the Internet are Changing the Face of Cancer
R Plotnick
2007
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