ISBN:
1410607763
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 230 p
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24 cm
Parallel Title:
Print version Mediating the Human Body : Technology, Communication, and Fashion
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Body, Human Social aspects
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Human beings Effect of technological innovations on
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Human figure in art
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Human-computer interaction
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Communication and technology
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Mass media and technology
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Technology and civilization
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Advertising Fashion
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Discussing a wide array of topics on how the body and technology interact, this work aims to improve our understanding of the experience of body as it is mediated among competing forces and intellectual domains. The perspectives include literary analysis and speculative interpretations
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Contributors; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; PART I The Body Between Science, Technology, and Art; CHAPTER TWO The Body: Artificialization and Transparency; CHAPTER THREE Body and Technology: Continuity or Discontinuity?; CHAPTER FOUR Bodies and Robots; CHAPTER FIVE Sade Triumphant: The Body in Contemporary Art; CHAPTER SIX The Narrated Body: The Representation of Corporeality in Contemporary Literature; CHAPTER SEVEN Real People, Artificial Bodies; PART II The Body Communicating Between Technology, Fashion, and Identity
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER EIGHT Cross-Cultural Comparisons of ICTsCHAPTER NINE Mobile Phone Tribes: Youth and Social Identity; CHAPTER TEN Fashion and Vulgarity in the Adoption of the Mobile Telephone Among Teens in Norway; CHAPTER ELEVEN Extension of the Hand: Children's and Teenagers' Relationship With the Mobile Phone in Finland; CHAPTER TWELVE Women's Identities and Everyday Technologies; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Body to Body: Copresence in Communication; CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Next Frontier of Technology: Awaiting UMTS; PART III Dressing Technologies
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Slaves and Free People in the Gaily Colored EmpireCHAPTER SIXTEEN Inside the Surface: Technology in Modern Textiles; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Fashion, Media, and Cultural Anxiety: Visual Representations of Childhood; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Wearing Communication: Home, Travel, Space; CHAPTER NINETEEN The Equipped Body: Wearable Computers and Intelligent Fabrics; PART IV The Body Technologies for Health and Well-Being; CHAPTER TWENTY Artificial Sensory Perception: Vicarious Technologies for Synesthesia; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Health Care Technologies: The Contribution of Industrial Design
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The Third Skin: Wearing the Car, Ignoring SafetyCHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Conditions of Microgravity and the Body's "Second Skin"; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The Technologies of Body Visualization; CHAPTER TWENTY- FIVE Conclusion: Bodies Mediating the Future; Author Index; Subject Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction /Leopoldina Fortunati,James E. Katz,Raimonda Riccini --PART I. THE BODY BETWEEN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ART --Body: artificialization and transparency /Tomás Maldonado --Body and technology: continuity or discontinuity? /Giuseppe O. Longo --Bodies and robots /Marco Somalvico --Sade triumphant: the body in contemporary art /Raimondo Strassoldo --Narrated body: the representation of corporeality in contemporary literature /Ada Neiger --Real people, artificial bodies /Leopoldina Fortunati --PART II. THE BODY COMMUNICATING BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY, FASHION, AND IDENTITY --Cross-cultural comparisons of ICT's /James E. Katz ... [et al.] --Mobile phone tribes: youth and social identity /Claire Lobet-Maris --Fashion and vulgarity in the adoption of the mobile telephone among teens in Norway /Richard Ling --Extension of the hand: children's and teenagers' relationship with the mobile phone in Finland /Virpi Oksman,Pirjo Rautiainen --Women's identities and everyday technologies /Raimonda Riccini --Body to body: copresence in communication /Alberta Contarello --Next frontier of technology: awaiting UMTS /Giovanni Strocchi --PART III. DRESSING TECHNOLOGIES --Slaves and free people in the gaily colored empire /Giorgio Pacifici,Paolo Girardi --Inside the surface: technology in modern textiles /Elda Danese --Fashion, media, and cultural anxiety: visual representations of childhood /Susan B. Kaiser --Wearing communication: home, travel, space /Patrizia Calefato --Equipped body: wearable computers and intelligent fabrics /Anna Poli --PART IV. THE BODY AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING --Artificial sensory perception: vicarious technologies for synesthesia /Dina Riccò --Health care technologies: the contribution of industrial design /Medardo Chiapponi --Third skin: wearing the car, ignoring safety /Jorge Frascara --Conditions of microgravity and the body's "second skin" /Annalisa Dominoni --Technologies of body visualization /Paolo Gerundini,Massimo Castellani --Conclusion:Bodies mediating the future /Leopoldina Fortunati,James E. Katz,Raimonda Riccini.
Note:
Based on a conference held Jan. 11-12, 2001, during the Triennale di Milano
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003
