s Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema succeeds in uniting recent popular film with critical media and technology studies, demonstrating through familiar cinematic examples that audiences' relationship with technology is increasingly normalized. Dealing with theoretical questions relating to posthumanism and identity, as well as the establishment of digital technologies in everyday and political spheres, Tucker understands today's cinematic spectator as a digitally informed media

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... . His main focus is on the "machinic audience," the emergence of which he traces alongside the historical development of the Internet. Through this approach, he negotiates the various ways in which popular Hollywood films since the 1980s do two things: portray computational technologies and networks and represent changing cultural attitudes towards these technologies and the Internet.