Acting Bodies and Social Networks

A Bridge between Technology and Working Memory
Herausgeber: Pirani, Bianca Maria; Varga, Ivan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the complex interactions of body, mind and microelectronic technologies. Internationally renowned scholars look into the nature of the mind - a combination of thought, perception, emotion, will and imagination - as well as the ever-increasing impact and complexity of microelectronic technologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9780761849971
• ISBN-10: 0761849971
• Artikelnr.: 28113494

Autorenporträt

Bianca Maria Pirani professor of sociology of cultural and communicative processes at Sapienza, University of Rome, is president of Research Committee 54, "The Body in the Social Sciences," of the International Sociological Association. She is an editorial board member of Sage Studies in International Sociology. Pirani has published widely on the relations between human bodies and social knowledge as editor of the monograph Bodily Order. Mind, Emotion and Social Memory, "Current Sociology" (March 2005, Sage publication), and co-editor with Ivan Varga of the book The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies. Ivan Varga is professor emeritus of sociology, Queen's University, Canada and honorary president of Research Committee 22 "Sociology of Religion" of the International Sociological Association. Varga is a member of the editorial board of International Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. Utopian Bodies
Chapter 4 2. Obama as Charismatic Icon Chapter 5 3. A Social Icon: the
"Squart" Chapter 6 4. Philosophy as Memory Chapter 7 5. Icons, Symbols,
Cultures Chapter 8 6. Increasing Diversity in a Changing Europe Part 9
Second Part: Social Icons of the Body: Empirical Case-studies Chapter 10 7.
The Play Actors: Fleeing Bodies, Remaining Prudishness or...Body under
control? Chapter 11 8. Body Cult and Consumption: Fashion and Beauty in the
Construction of Lifestyles Chapter 12 9. Because also I Am Worthy: the Male
Body on the Stage Chapter 13 10. Spectacular Boobs. An in-depth look at
Sex-themed Restaurants and their Female Waitresses Chapter 14 11. Southern
Bodies: Bodies, Gender and Sexuality in World Society Chapter 15 12. How Do
I Change His Nappy? Disabled Mothers and Cyber-community Part 16 Volume
Two: Mapping Bodies in Networked Space Part 17 First Part: The Body and its
Prosthetics: Laboratories Chapter 18 1. . . . a body under the bushes:
Ghosts in the Machine Chapter 19 2. About the Technological Bricoleur
Chapter 20 3. Cyborg Identity and Contemporary Techno-utopias: Adaptations
and Transformations of the Body in the Age of Nanotechnology Chapter 21 4.
Body becoming architecture: A continuum for the body's interface with
architecture through digital networks Chapter 22 5. Resistances of the
Body. The Presence of the Human Body in the Automated World Chapter 23 6.
Social Bodies and Locative Technologies Part 24 Second Part: Technology,
Physiology and Memory Chapter 25 Neurosociological Foundations of Social
Networks: Distress-dependent Synaptic Architecture in Social Systems
Chapter 26 Technology, Memory and the (Mind) Body:Towards the Integration
of the Biological and the Cultural in the Analysis of Human Social Behavior
Chapter 27 Technology and the Body in Aboriginal Identity Making Chapter 28
Bodies in Canyoneering: an Essay on Socio-geographic Mapping Chapter 29
Bodies in Action: Performing Identity in Dating Sites Chapter 30 From the
Developing Mind to Developing Technology Chapter 31 Postscript Chapter 32
About the contributors