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Acting bodies and social networks : a bridge between technology and working memory /

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 microelectron...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: World Forum of Sociology Barcelona, Spain
Otros Autores: Pirani, Bianca Maria, Varga, Ivan
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : University Press of America, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.