Mediating the Human Body (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Edited volume explores new technologies' effects on human beings. For scholars & adv students in communication & technology, human-computer interaction, gender studies, social psychology, design, and other areas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 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.