Mediating the Human Body (eBook, PDF)

Technology, Communication, and Fashion
Redaktion: Fortunati, Leopoldina; Riccini, Raimonda; Katz, James E.

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Produktbeschreibung

The ever-increasing integration of technology and the human body is attracting attention from religious, business, and political leaders around the world, and the topic promises to be a significant social issue in the 21st century. In Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion, editors Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, and Raimonda Riccini bring together a thoughtful group of leading international scholars and analysts to explore the effects of new technologies on human beings. They focus specifically on the intersection of new communication technologies and the body, and offer novel insights based on recent theoretical progress and current research on new interpersonal technology.

Through literary analysis, historical comparisons, analytical reports, and speculative interpretations, the contributors to this volume seek to understand the experience of the body as it is mediated among competing forces and intellectual domains. Arising from The Human Body Between Technologies, Communication and Fashion symposium held in Milan, Italy, contributions cover a wide array of topics and offer varied perspectives on how communication technologies are assimilated into people's lives, bodies, and homes, and thus become part of individuals' self-images and social relationships. From this multidisciplinary, multi-national base, the volume illuminates the sense and dimension of this interpenetration between body and technology. In its broad scope, the topics range from the wellsprings of consciousness to the use of technology as a fashion statement.

Bringing together scholarship from a variety of disciplines, including communication, medicine, technology, and human-computer interaction, this distinctive anthology will provide new insights to scholars and advanced students exploring body-technology intersections and the attendant implications. Mediating the Human Body offers a unique contribution to future discussions, and will be relevant to continuing study and research in communication and technology, human-computer interaction, gender studies, social psychology, and design.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135626457
• Artikelnr.: 42718529

Autorenporträt

Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, Raimonda Riccini

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: P. Gamba
Foreword. L. Fortunati
J.E. Katz
R. Riccini
Introduction. Part I:The Body Between Science
Technology
and Art.T. Maldonado
The Body: Artificialization and Transparency. G.O. Longo
Body and Technology: Continuity or Discontinuity? M. Somalvico
Bodies and Robots. R. Strassoldo
Sade Triumphant: The Body in Contemporary Art. A. Neiger
The Narrated Body: The Representation of Corporeality in Contemporary Literature. L. Fortunati
Real People
Artificial Bodies. Part II:The Body Communicating Between Technology
Fashion
and Identity. J.E. Katz
M. Aakhus
H.D. Kim
M. Turner
Cross-Cultural Comparisons of ICTs. C. Lobet-Maris
Mobile Phone Tribes: Youth and Social Identity. R. Ling
Fashion and Vulgarity in the Adoption of the Mobile Telephone Among Teens in Norway. V. Oksman
P. Rautiainen
Extension of the Hand: Children's and Teenagers' Relationship With the Mobile Phone in Finland. R. Riccini
Women's Identities and Everyday Technologies. A. Contarello
Body to Body: Copresence in Communication. G. Strocchi
The Next Frontier of Technology: Awaiting UMTS. Part III:Dressing Technologies.G. Pacifici
P. Girardi
Slaves and Free People in the Gaily Colored Empire. E. Danese
Inside the Surface: Technology in Modern Textiles. S.B. Kaiser
Fashion
Media
and Cultural Anxiety: Visual Representations of Childhood. P. Calefato
Wearing Communication: Home
Travel
Space. A. Poli
The Equipped Body: Wearable Computers and Intelligent Fabrics. Part IV:The Body and Technologies for Health and Well-Being.D. Riccò
Artificial Sensory Perception: Vicarious Technologies for Synesthesia. M. Chiapponi
Health Care Technologies: The Contribution of Industrial Design. J. Frascara
The Third Skin: Wearing the Car
Ignoring Safety. A. Dominoni
Conditions of Microgravity and the Body's "Second Skin." P. Gerundini
M. Castellani
The Technologies of Body Visualization. L. Fortunati
J.E. Katz
R. Riccini
Conclusion: Bodies Mediating the Future.