Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 398 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Utopian bodies -- Obama as charismatic icon -- A social icon: the "squart" -- Philosophy as memory -- Icons, symbols, cultures -- Increasing diversity in a changing Europe -- The play actors: fleeing bodies, remaining prudishness or ... body under control? -- Body cult and consumption: fashion and beauty in the construction of lifestyles -- Because also I am worthy: the male body on the stage -- Spectacular boobs. A indepth look at sex-themed restaurants and their female waitresses -- Southern bodies: bodies, gender and sexuality in world society -- How do I change his nappy? Disabled mothers and cyber-community -- ... a body under bushes: ghosts in the machine -- About technological bricoleur -- Cyborg identity and contemporary techno-utopias: adaptations and transformations of the body in the age of nanotechnology -- Body becoming architecture: a continuum for the body's interface with architecture through digital networks -- Resistances of the body. The presence of the human body in the automated world -- Social bodies and locative technologies -- Neurosociological foundations of social networks: distress-dependent synaptic architecture in social systems -- Technology, memory and the (mind)body: towards the integration of the biological and the cultural in the analysis of human social behavior -- Technology and the body in aboriginal identity making -- Bodies in canyoneering: an essay on socio-geographic mapping -- Bodies in action: performing identity in dating sites -- From the developing mind to developing technology |
Summary |
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 |
Notes |
Selected papers presented at the Research Committee 54 "The body in the social sciences" program of the International Sociological Associations's First World Forum of Sociology held in Barcelona on Sept. 4-8, 2008 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Social psychology -- Congresses
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Technology -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Mind and body -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Social networks -- Congresses
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COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- General.
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COMPUTERS -- Interactive & Multimedia.
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COMPUTERS -- Web -- Site Design.
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COMPUTERS -- Web -- User Generated Content.
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Mind and body -- Social aspects
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Social networks
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Social psychology
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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Author |
Pirani, Bianca Maria.
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Varga, Ivan.
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ISBN |
9780761849988 |
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076184998X |
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1299135803 |
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9781299135802 |
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