Touch in digitalized worlds: An introduction
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The English word digital (from the Latin, digitus)etymologically connects both fingers and technologies.In this special issue, we honor this dual meaning of thedigital by foregrounding how living in a digital era bothchallenges and actualizes our senses, particularly oursense of touch. Ethnographically, the articles gatheredoffer intimate accounts of tactile experiences thatintertwine with the digital in both direct and indirectways. Despite ongoing—and often legitimate—anxietiesabout the disappearance of touch from our increasinglydigitized world, our special issue shows that humanengagements with digital technologies are morecomplex. We theorize touch through a phenomenologicaland relational lens and as a sensory experience that isdeeply shaped and reconfigured by local, sociotechnicaland political- economic concerns. This special issueilluminates how attention to hands, fingers, or touch canhelp us understand the relationship between bodies,ethical life, social relations, selves, and subjectivitiesthrough a new lens. digital environments, embodiment, hands, sensory ethnography, touch