Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion
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...
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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.
AcknowledgmentsForewordList of Contributors1Introduction1Pt. IThe Body Between Science, Technology, and Art2The Body: Artificialization and Transparency153Body and Technology: Continuity or Discontinuity?234Bodies and Robots315Sade Triumphant: The Body in Contemporary Art396The Narrated Body: The Representation of Corporeality in Contemporary Literature517Real People, Artificial Bodies61Pt. IIThe Body Communicating Between Technology, Fashion, and Identity8Cross-Cultural Comparisons of ICTs759Mobile Phone Tribes: Youth and Social Identity8710Fashion and Vulgarity in the Adoption of the Mobile Telephone Among Teens in Norway9311Extension of the Hand: Children and Teenagers' Relationship with the Mobile Phone in Finland10312Women's Identities and Everyday Technologies11313Body to Body: Copresence in Communication12314The Next Frontier of Technology: Awaiting UMTS13315Slaves and Free People in the Gaily Colored Empire13916Inside the Surface: Technology in Modern Textiles14717Fashion, Media, and Cultural Anxiety: Visual Representations of Childhood15518Wearing Communication: Home, Travel, Space16319The Equipped Body: Wearable Computers and Intelligent Fabrics169Pt. IVThe Body and Technologies for Health and Well-Being20Artificial Sensory Perception: Vicarious Technologies for Synesthesia17721Health Care Technologies: The Contribution of Industrial Design18722The Third Skin: Wearing the Car, Ignoring Safety19523Conditions of Microgravity and the Body's "Second Skin"20124The Technologies of Body Visualization20925Conclusion: Bodies Mediating the Future215Author Index221Subject Index227
