Interface Frictions

INTERFACE FRICTIONS: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies (2025, Duke University Press, Neta Alexander) 

Friday, March 13, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor

In Interface Frictions, Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms reshape, condition, and break our bodies. Discussion: author Neta Alexander (Yale University), Anna McCarthy (Cinema Studies), and Whit Pow (Media, Culture, and Communication). Moderator: Faye Ginsburg (Anthropology / Center for Media, Culture & History). 

Co-sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies, the Center for Media, Culture & History, and the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies.

This is an in-person event, open to the public. Prior registration is required. Non-NYU attendees will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees must present their NYU ID.