Gendered Bodies and New Technologies : Rethinking Embodiment in a Cyber-era.

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In this era of ubiquitous information flow, heightened mobility and limitless consumer convenience, human interaction with new technologies has become increasingly seamless. In the process the human body is effectively and steadily reduced to just another interface or a "second life", so t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Du Preez, Amanda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
Temas:
Human-computer interaction > Social aspects.
Human-machine systems > Social aspects.
Technology > Social aspects.
Information society.
Systèmes homme-machine > Aspect social.
Société informatisée.
Gender studies: women.
Feminism & feminist theory.
Cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In this era of ubiquitous information flow, heightened mobility and limitless consumer convenience, human interaction with new technologies has become increasingly seamless. In the process the human body is effectively and steadily reduced to just another interface or a "second life", so to speak. What is easily forgotten during this translucent transaction is that being human also necessarily implies being embodied. In other words, to constitute a body in its non-negotiable physicality is st ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (210 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-183) and index.
ISBN:9781443815413
1443815411
9781443813235
1443813230

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