<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Congratulations Rachel - your book promises to be a good read! - Julie Cohn <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Sep 27, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Plotnick, Rachel <<a href="mailto:raplotni@iu.edu">raplotni@iu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p>I am pleased to announce the publication of my book, <em>Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing</em> with The MIT Press in the Science, Technology & Society series. <br>
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<p>The book historicizes computing by thinking about definitions of "digital" as they apply to fingers and button pushing, tracing the roots of a 19th-century society that becomes transfixed with the notion of pushing a button to accomplish work or play. Alongside
thinking about electrification and industrialization, it considers everything from push-button warfare, vending machines and cameras to "Like" buttons in social media. It asks questions about how and why buttons became a ubiquitous technology and button pushing
became an entrenched practice - one fraught with concerns about skill, effort, gender, age and class.<br>
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<p>Check out an excerpt here: <a href="https://medium.com/@mitpress/pleasure-panic-and-the-politics-of-pushing-123b534eaee7">https://medium.com/@mitpress/pleasure-panic-and-the-politics-of-pushing-123b534eaee7</a> <br>
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<p>And purchase options here: <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/power-button">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/power-button</a> <br>
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<p>Thanks and regards,<br>
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<p>Rachel<br>
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<div><a href="http://www.rachelplotnick.com">http://www.rachelplotnick.com</a> <br>
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