Anne Cranny-Francis is a Professor and Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research on the body has combined with the study of multimedia in extensive work on the relationship between individual subjects, sensory regimes, cultures and contemporary technologies, particularly touch-based (haptic) technologies. Her books include Popular Culture (1994), The Body in the Text (1995), Multimedia: Texts and Contexts (2005) and Technology and Touch: the Biopolitics of Emerging Technologies (2013).