glowface
n. A face lit up by a device screen or computer monitor; a person whose face is lit in this way.
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2013
It’s a Glowface world. That’s the term my author father coined to describe people who always have their faces buried in a computer screen…

Suddenly, from one corner of the world to the other, glowfacing emerged. What first seemed like a harmless phenomenon is now changing the way we interact.
—Cody Matera, “Why I Will Never Get Sucked Into My iPhone,” Dot Complicated, May 22, 2013
2010
So long live the touch screen and long live the Glowface.
—Kate Stevens, “Why we’re all going to be Glowfacers,” AxiCom, June 27, 2010
2009 (earliest)
He looked geeky, like we all do, staring at the little screen, a slight LCD glow on his face. All of his showmanship died, sadly, when he converted over to Serato. I am saddened by this, but am also a victim. All I am saying is this *might* be a ticket out of LCD glowface hell.
—Dave Diem Martinez, “Wacom Dips Toe In Club Scene With Nextbeat Wireless DJ Controller,” Gizmodo, March 16, 2009
Notes
Thanks to Jennie Wong for spying this word.
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