Research Catalog

Title

Mediating the human body : technology, communication, and fashion / edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, Raimonda Riccini.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fortunati, Leopoldina
• Katz, James Everett
• Riccini, Raimonda

Description

xix, 230 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Mediating the Human Body, Technology, Communication, and Fashion, editors Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, and Raimonda Riccini bring together a thoughtful group of international scholars and analysts to explore the effects of new technologies on human beings. They focus selectively 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." "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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Communication and technology
• Computer software > Human factors
• Mass media and technology
• Technology and civilization
• Human body > Social aspects
• Human beings > Effect of technological innovations on
• Advertising > Fashion
• Human figure in art

Note

• Based on a conference held Jan. 11-12, 2001, during the Triennale di Milano.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Pierfrancesco Gamba -- 1. Introduction / Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz and Raimonda Riccini -- Pt. I. The Body Between Science, Technology, and Art -- 2. The Body: Artificialization and Transparency / Tomas Maldonado -- 3. Body and Technology: Continuity or Discontinuity? / Giuseppe O. Longo -- 4. Bodies and Robots / Marco Somalvico -- 5. Sade Triumphant: The Body in Contemporary Art / Raimondo Strassoldo -- 6. The Narrated Body: The Representation of Corporeality in Contemporary Literature / Ada Neiger -- 7. Real People, Artificial Bodies / Leopoldina Fortunati -- Pt. II. The Body Communicating Between Technology, Fashion, and Identity -- 8. Cross-Cultural Comparisons of ICTs / James E. Katz, Mark Aakhus, Hyo Dong Kim and Martha Turner -- 9. Mobile Phone Tribes: Youth and Social Identity / Claire Lobet-Maris -- 10. Fashion and Vulgarity in the Adoption of the Mobile Telephone Among Teens in Norway / Richard Ling -- 11. Extension of the Hand: Children and Teenagers' Relationship with the Mobile Phone in Finland / Virpi Oksman and Pirjo Rautiainen -- 12. Women's Identities and Everyday Technologies / Raimonda Riccini -- 13. Body to Body: Copresence in Communication / Alberta Contarello -- 14. The Next Frontier of Technology: Awaiting UMTS / Giovanni Strocchi -- 15. Slaves and Free People in the Gaily Colored Empire / Giorgio Pacifici and Paolo Girardi -- 16. Inside the Surface: Technology in Modern Textiles / Elda Danese -- 17. Fashion, Media, and Cultural Anxiety: Visual Representations of Childhood / Susan B. Kaiser -- 18. Wearing Communication: Home, Travel, Space / Patrizia Calefato -- 19. The Equipped Body: Wearable Computers and Intelligent Fabrics / Anna Poli -- Pt. IV. The Body and Technologies for Health and Well-Being -- 20. Artificial Sensory Perception: Vicarious Technologies for Synesthesia / Dina Ricco -- 21. Health Care Technologies: The Contribution of Industrial Design / Medardo Chiapponi -- 22. The Third Skin: Wearing the Car, Ignoring Safety / Jorge Frascara -- 23. Conditions of Microgravity and the Body's "Second Skin" / Annalisa Dominoni -- 24. The Technologies of Body Visualization / Paolo Gerundini and Massimo Castellani -- 25. Conclusion: Bodies Mediating the Future / Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz and Raimonda Riccini.

ISBN

• 0805844805 (alk. paper)
• 0805844813 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002035395

OCLC

• ocm50738324
• SCSB-4807202

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries