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Stephen Monteiro
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Communication Studies faculty @ Concordia University, Montreal | Latest book - Needy Media: How Tech Gets Personal (MQUP, 2025) stephenmonteiro.org
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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · 20d
It’s here! Look for it at your local bookshop or library. Or get the ebook online.
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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 20d
Surveying products and practices across a half century, in Needy Media Stephen Monteiro argues that the appeal of portable, networked personal media devices lies as much in how they behave as it does in the information they convey.

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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · 2d
Interested in how iPod personalization practices - the engravings, the tattoos, the skins - helped set the stage for today’s device intimacy? Check out the Toronto Star’s excerpt from Needy Media, my new @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social book.

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Our iPods, ourselves: a new book explores how we came to adore our devices
We took them everywhere and even engraved them. Then all of a sudden they had skins. As one theorist notes, the skins' arrival “explicitly connects the iPod to flesh, to
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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · 3d
“But unresolved issues around the device’s ‘personality,’ how it handles privacy, and computing infrastructure might delay the launch.”

Probably not.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 3d
OpenAI and Jony Ive reportedly face significant technical challenges as they work to develop a screen-less, AI-powered device.
OpenAI and Jony Ive may be struggling to figure out their AI device | TechCrunch
OpenAI and Jony Ive reportedly face significant technical challenges as they work to develop a screen-less, AI-powered device.
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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · 9d
Proud to be among this group.
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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 9d
Today on the blog, we look back at the books we published in September!

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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · 20d
It’s here! Look for it at your local bookshop or library. Or get the ebook online.
mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 20d
Surveying products and practices across a half century, in Needy Media Stephen Monteiro argues that the appeal of portable, networked personal media devices lies as much in how they behave as it does in the information they convey.

Out now! buff.ly/J6uiBc4
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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · 23d
Great historical research here - we should be wary of privacy concerns even with our less sophisticated personal media.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 23d
"The tension between surveillance and self-improvement, between control and liberation, is a recurring theme in the history of wearable technology."
Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech
From jealous spouses to paranoid bosses, 19th-century pedometers quantified suspicion and reshaped the dynamics of surveillance.
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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · Sep 3
In case you missed it, here’s my Needy Media conversation with CBC’s David Common on smart device intimacy, its historical roots, and its role in data extraction.
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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · Aug 29
How did our smart devices get so needy? Listen to my discussion on CBC’s The Sunday Magazine this weekend. And for a deeper dive, check out my book, Needy Media, out Sept. 16 from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · Aug 8
Just days until publication, Needy Media makes @quillandquire.bsky.social Fall nonfiction list. Too cool. @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
Needy Media | McGill-Queen’s University Press
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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · Jun 26
New book out this fall - Needy Media: How Tech Gets Personal (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social) - explores how sensory cues drive tech intimacy & data exploitation.

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Needy Media | McGill-Queen’s University Press
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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · Jun 3
Looking forward to sharing “The Wellness Game: Digital Toys, Biometrics, and Networked Self-Care” (Think Tamagotchi+Fitbit=Us?) today @ 3:30 on the Care, Connection, and Autonomy panel of CCA. #congressh
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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · Jun 2
Just heard a great panel - Tech and Power: Global Political Economic Perspectives - at Congress/CCA #congressh
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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · May 27
Excited to see—and pleased to share—that The Fabric of Interface (my earlier book on mobile interactivity and craft culture) is now out in paperback. Thanks @mitpress.bsky.social !
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