Rachel Plotnick

Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Rachel Plotnick is an assistant professor of cinema and media studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Her latest book is Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic and the Politics of Pushing (2018).

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Written by Rachel Plotnick

A worn control panel with green and red buttons, several switches and labels, showing signs of usage and dirt accumulation.

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Technology and the self

Who pushes the button?

From elevators to iPhones, the rise of pushbuttons has provoked a century of worries about losing the human touch

Rachel Plotnick