Jason E Archer

Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Technologies | Department of Humanities | Michigan Technological University

Technology | Touch | Media | Communication

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  • Tactility & Texture: Embrace at the Interface

    I recently (January 2025) published a chapter in Jaime Banks’ Android, Assembled: The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots published by Peter Lang. The chapter explores how imbuing robots with tactile qualities meant to facilitate more meaningful social interactions often perpetuates normative notions of care, labor, and gender, reinforcing existing relationships of power. If…

  • Haptic Holograms

    My article with Thomas Conner, Haptic Holograms: The Liminal Communication of Emerging Visio-Haptic Apparatuses has been published in a special issue (Media Technologies and Epistemologies: The Platforming of Everything) of the International Journal of Communication: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21903 This article interrogates the development of two technologies that have started to converge—midair haptics and holograms—and theorizes that their…

  • HMC Syllabus Project

  • Haptic ambiguities: tracing touch in medical media technologies

    On Thursday, July 18th, I will present work on haptics and surgical robotics as part of the panel, “Haptic revolutions: sensory futures and phenomenologies of expertise in medical worlds” organized by Denisa Butnaru (University of Konstanz) and Taina Kinnunen (University of Oulu) for EASST/4S in Amsterdam, NL.

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Jason E Archer