Carey Jewitt
Papers
7
Total Citations
73
H-Index
6
About
Carey Jewitt is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of digital touch, sensory ethnography, and human-robot interaction. Her work fundamentally reshapes how we understand touch as a communicative and social modality in an increasingly digitized world. Jewitt’s major contributions lie in documenting the tactile dynamics of industrial settings, particularly through her ethnographic studies of collaborative and tele-robots in contexts like glass factories. Her most cited paper, "Filtering Touch: An Ethnography of Dirt, Danger, and Industrial Robots" (2021, 22 citations), critically examines how Industry 4.0 robots reorganize sensory labor and risk. She further explores sociotechnical imaginaries of tactile telepresence and the affective entanglements of human-robot collaboration, as seen in "Collaborative Robots and Tangled Passages of Tactile-Affects" (2022, 11 citations). Beyond industry, Jewitt investigates how digital touch can convey social emotions, coining the concept of "tactile emoticons" for social media. As editor of a special issue on "Digital Touch," she has helped frame a new research agenda that moves communication beyond the visual to include the haptic. With a growing body of work that bridges sociology, design, and technology studies, Jewitt is a leading voice in understanding how touch—human and robotic—shapes our future interactions.
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Top Papers
- 1Filtering Touch: An Ethnography of Dirt, Danger, and Industrial Robots22 citations · 2021
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- 3Collaborative Robots and Tangled Passages of Tactile-Affects11 citations · 2022
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- 5Becoming in Touch with Industrial Robots through Ethnography7 citations · 2020
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- 7Sensory Explorations of Digital Touch3 citations · 2023