Social critics and artifi cial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of history. Many among the general population seem to have shared this fear of a dehumanized future. But how are people in the twenty-fi rst century actually reacting to the ever-expanding array of gadgets and networks at their disposal? Is computer anxiety a signifi cant problem, paralyzing and terrorizing millions, or are ever-proliferating numbers of gadgets being enthusiastically embraced? Machines that Become Us, now in paperback, explores the…mehr
Social critics and artifi cial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of history. Many among the general population seem to have shared this fear of a dehumanized future. But how are people in the twenty-fi rst century actually reacting to the ever-expanding array of gadgets and networks at their disposal? Is computer anxiety a signifi cant problem, paralyzing and terrorizing millions, or are ever-proliferating numbers of gadgets being enthusiastically embraced? Machines that Become Us, now in paperback, explores the increasingly intimate relationship between people and their personal communication technologies.
1: Introduction 1: Theoretical Perspectives 2: Do Machines Become Us? 3: Understanding Information and Communication Technology and Infrastructure in Everyday Life: Struggling with Communication-at-a-Distance 4: Domestication and Mobile Telephony 5: Communication Technology and Sociability: Between Local Ties and "Global Ghetto"? 6: The Human Body: Natural and Artificial Technology 2: National and Cross-Cultural Studies 7: Digital Divides of the Internet and Mobile Phone: Structural Determinants of the Social Context of Communication Technologies 8: Social Capital and the New Communication Technologies 9: Information and Communication Technology in Russian Families: Results of Sociological Research 10: Face and Place: The Mobile Phone and Internet In the Netherlands 11: Computer Anxiety Among "Smart" Dutch Computer Users 12: The Social Context of the Mobile Phone Use of Norwegian Teens 13: Two Modes of Maintaining Interpersonal Relations Through Telephone: From the Domestic to the Mobile Phone 14: Culture and Design for Mobile Phones for China 3: Subcultures, Technologies, and Fashion 15: Outwardly Mobile: Young People and Mobile Technologies 16: Breaking Time and Place: Mobile Technologies and Reconstituted Identities 17: Crossbreeding Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing: A Design Experience 18: Mobile Telephony, Mobility, and the Coordination of Everyday Life 19: Soft Machine 20: Aesthetics in Microgravity 21: Piercings Tattoos, and Branding: Latent and Profound Reasons for Body Manipulations 22: "Perhaps It is a Body Part": How the Mobile Phone Became an Organic Part of the Everyday Lives of Finnish Children and Teenagers Coda 23: Bodies, Machines, and Communication Contexts: What is to Become of Us?
1: Introduction 1: Theoretical Perspectives 2: Do Machines Become Us? 3: Understanding Information and Communication Technology and Infrastructure in Everyday Life: Struggling with Communication-at-a-Distance 4: Domestication and Mobile Telephony 5: Communication Technology and Sociability: Between Local Ties and "Global Ghetto"? 6: The Human Body: Natural and Artificial Technology 2: National and Cross-Cultural Studies 7: Digital Divides of the Internet and Mobile Phone: Structural Determinants of the Social Context of Communication Technologies 8: Social Capital and the New Communication Technologies 9: Information and Communication Technology in Russian Families: Results of Sociological Research 10: Face and Place: The Mobile Phone and Internet In the Netherlands 11: Computer Anxiety Among "Smart" Dutch Computer Users 12: The Social Context of the Mobile Phone Use of Norwegian Teens 13: Two Modes of Maintaining Interpersonal Relations Through Telephone: From the Domestic to the Mobile Phone 14: Culture and Design for Mobile Phones for China 3: Subcultures, Technologies, and Fashion 15: Outwardly Mobile: Young People and Mobile Technologies 16: Breaking Time and Place: Mobile Technologies and Reconstituted Identities 17: Crossbreeding Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing: A Design Experience 18: Mobile Telephony, Mobility, and the Coordination of Everyday Life 19: Soft Machine 20: Aesthetics in Microgravity 21: Piercings Tattoos, and Branding: Latent and Profound Reasons for Body Manipulations 22: "Perhaps It is a Body Part": How the Mobile Phone Became an Organic Part of the Everyday Lives of Finnish Children and Teenagers Coda 23: Bodies, Machines, and Communication Contexts: What is to Become of Us?
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