On Toilets as Media Furniture and Incontinent Containers
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abstract: At the intersection between toilets and media, plumbing transforms into a seat and setting where media practices unfold. Toilets, I argue, function as media furniture, both holding bodies and threatening them as "incontinent" containers when media devices fall into the bowl. Situating toilet-media culture in historical context, I investigate how bathrooms—as fraught spaces caught between privateness and publicness and entangled in questions of gender, sex, safety, and health—uneasily afford media consumption. Such a case adds further dimensions to how media scholarship can understand matters of embodiment, materiality, mobility, ability, and everyday life.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Mediatization and Communication for Social Change
Gender
Feminism
and Media
Visual Culture and Art Theory
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of cinema and media studies
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 84–104
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN