Selected Publications

Plotnick, R. (2017). Force, flatness and touch without feeling: Thinking historically about haptics and buttonsNew Media and Society, 19(10), 1632-1652.
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Plotnick, R. (2012). At the interface: The case of the electric push button, 1880-1923. Technology and Culture, 53(4), 815-845.
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Plotnick, R. (2012). Predicting push-button warfare: U.S. print media and conflict from a distance, 1945-2010. Media, Culture and Society, 34, 655-672.
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Plotnick, R. (2012). Touch of a button: Long-distance transmission, communication and control at world’s fairs. Critical Studies in Media Communication. DOI:10.1080/15295036.2012.670710
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Plotnick, R. (2010). Computers, systems theory, and the making of a wired hospital: A history of Technicon Medical Information System, 1964-1987. JASIST, 61(6), 1281-1294.
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