Claire Bishop's "Digital Divide" begins with a request: "Cast your mind back to the late 1990s, when we got our first e-mail accounts." Who is "we"? Certainly not me. In the late 1990s I could barely articulate, let alone sign up for an email address. Instantly I know that this article is not for me. I grew up with technology--I made my first neopets account when I was 7. I even had my parents fax in a permission slip for me to join. My digital footprint is 13 years old out of my 20, meaning it's existed for 65% of my life.

When I read the descriptions of the artworks that Bishop seems to think address digital media  in the second paragraph because these ideas seem so obvious to me. In fact Touching Reality sounds a lot like my own video "👅💦" which addresses the divide that the internet creates between people and is also critical of digital pornography. Please see the NSFW video at https://vimeo.com/165390423.

I also love the discussion of the fetish for analog media. I worked at Urban Outfitters for a while and thought it was so weird and interesting that they were selling tape players. There's this weird self-hatred that I feel is associated with our rejection of digital technology. Personally I prefer to completely reject old technology, in a futurist kind of way but maybe less sexist.