Mark Paterson has been conducting interdisciplinary research on the senses and sensory technologies. He has written one of the most cited books on the subject of touch and technology, The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (Routledge, 2007). His books have been endorsed by major figures in the social sciences, including George Ritzer and Roberta Sassetelli for the third edition of Consumption and Everyday Life (Routledge, 2023), David Howes and Erica Fretwell for his How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), and the University of California, Berkeley disability scholar …
Mark Paterson has been conducting interdisciplinary research on the senses and sensory technologies. He has written one of the most cited books on the subject of touch and technology, The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (Routledge, 2007). His books have been endorsed by major figures in the social sciences, including George Ritzer and Roberta Sassetelli for the third edition of Consumption and Everyday Life (Routledge, 2023), David Howes and Erica Fretwell for his How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), and the University of California, Berkeley disability scholar Georgina Kleege for his book Seeing With the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes (Edinburgh UP, 2016). He is on the editorial boards of three journals: The Senses and Society (since 2008), Emotion Space and Society (since 2014), and Multimodality and Society (since 2020). He is President of the ISA (International Sociological Association) Thematic Group 07 Senses and Society, after being elected Vice-President and Newsletter Editor in 2018, and is a member of the ‘Science, Knowledge and Technology’ and Sociology of the Body and Embodiment' sections of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
