Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article traces the contemporary cultural history of consent to information control. It argues that in order to begin to understand why people consent to the loss of control over their digital devices we need to see users as desiring subjects positioned at a cultural moment where the digital information screen has been enlisted as a central driver of both utility and pleasure, but where its architectural ability for additional functional control remains obscured.
Repository Citation
Best, Kirsty. "Concealing Screens: Consent, Control and the Desiring User." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 10, no. 2, 2010, pp. 1–16. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol10/iss2/4
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