Author: Michele White / Tulane University

Michele White is a Professor of Internet and New Media Studies in the Department of Communication at Tulane University. Her monographs consist of The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship (MIT, 2006); Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay (Duke, 2012); Producing Women: The Internet, Traditional Femininity, Queerness, and Creativity (Routledge, 2015); Producing Masculinity: The Internet, Gender, and Sexuality (Routledge, 2019); and Touch Screen Theory: Digital Devices and Feelings. (MIT, 2022). She co-edited the Feminist Media Histories issue on Genealogies of Feminist Media Studies (2018) and Anti-Feminisms in Media Culture (Routledge, 2022). Some of her ongoing research concerns are online narratives about expertise, Internet aesthetics and beauty cultures, the persistent digital authorization of misogyny and hate, and how notions of touching and feeling are employed to elide digital interfaces and representations.