Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion

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ISBN: 9780805844801 | 0805844805
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/1/2003

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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.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Foreword: Pierfrancesco Gamba Alderman, Fashion and Events Department, Milan City Council	p. xiii
Contributors	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
References and Bibliography	p. 10
The Body Between Science, Tecnology, and Art	p. 14
The Body: Artificialization and Transparency	p. 15
References and Bibliography	p. 21
Body and Technology: Continuity or Discontinuity?	p. 23
References and Bibliography	p. 30
Bodies and Robots	p. 31
References and Bibliography	p. 38
Sade Triumphant: the Body in Contemporary Art	p. 39
References and Bibliography	p. 49
The Narrated Body: the Representation of Corporeality in Contemporary Literature	p. 51
References and Bibliography	p. 58
Real People, Artificial Bodies	p. 61
References and Bibliography	p. 70
The Body Communicating Between Tecnology, Fashion, and Identity	p. 74
Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Icts	p. 75
References and Bibliography	p. 86
Mobile Phone Tribes: Youth and Social Identity	p. 87
References and Bibliography	p. 92
Fashion and Vulgarity in the Adoption of the Mobile Telephone Among Teens in Norway	p. 93
References and Bibliography	p. 101
Extension of the Hand: Children's and Teenagers' Relationship with the Mobile Phone in Finland	p. 103
References and Bibliography	p. 111
Women's Identities and Everyday Technologies	p. 113
References and Bibliography	p. 121
Body to Body: Copresence in Communication	p. 123
References and Bibliography	p. 130
The Next Frontier of Technology: Awaiting Umts	p. 133
Dressing Tecnology	p. 138
Slaves and Free People in the Gaily Colored Empire	p. 139
References and Bibliography	p. 145
Inside the Surface: Technology in Modern Textiles	p. 147
References and Bibliography	p. 153
Fashion, Media, and Cultural Anxiety: Visual Representations of Childhood	p. 155
References and Bibliography	p. 160
Wearing Communication: Home, Travel, Space	p. 163
References and Bibliography	p. 167
The Equipped Body: Wearable Computers and Intelligent Fabrics	p. 169
The Body and Tecnologies for Health and Well-Being	p. 176
Artificial Sensory Perception: Vicarious Technologies for Synesthesia	p. 177
References and Bibliography	p. 184
Health Care Technologies: the Contribution of Industrial Design	p. 187
References and Bibliography	p. 194
The Third Skin: Wearing the Car, Ignoring Safety	p. 195
References and Bibliography	p. 200
Conditions of Microgravity and the Body's "second Skin"	p. 201
References and Bibliography	p. 207
The Technologies of Body Visualization	p. 209
References and Bibliography	p. 213
Conclusion: Bodies Mediating the Future	p. 215
References and Bibliography	p. 218
Author Index	p. 221
Subject Index	p. 227
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