Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion

Table of contents

• Mediating the Human Body - Technology, Communication, and Fashion *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• Foreword - Pierfrancesco Gamba Alderman, Fashion and Events Department, Milan City Council xiii
• Contributors xv
• Chapter One - Introduction 1
• References and Bibliography *
• Part I - The Body Between Science, Tecnology, and Art *
• Chapter Two - The Body: Artificialization and Transparency 15
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Three - Body and Technology: Continuity or Discontinuity? 23
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Four - Bodies and Robots 31
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Five - Sade Triumphant: the Body in Contemporary Art 39
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Six - The Narrated Body: the Representation of Corporeality in Contemporary Literature 51
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Seven - Real People, Artificial Bodies 61
• References and Bibliography *
• Part II - The Body Communicating Between Tecnology, Fashion, and Identity *
• Chapter Eight - Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Icts 75
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Nine - Mobile Phone Tribes: Youth and Social Identity 87
• References and Bibliography 92
• Chapter Ten - Fashion and Vulgarity in the Adoption of the Mobile Telephone Among Teens in Norway 93
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Eleven - Extension of the Hand: Children's and Teenagers' Relationship with the Mobile Phone in Finland 103
• References and Bibliography 111
• Chapter Twelve - Women's Identities and Everyday Technologies 113
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Thirteen - Body to Body: Copresence in Communication 123
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Fourteen - The Next Frontier of Technology: Awaiting Umts 133
• Part III - Dressing Tecnology *
• Chapter Fifteen - Slaves and Free People in the Gaily Colored Empire 139
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Sixteen - Inside the Surface: Technology in Modern Textiles 147
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Seventeen - Fashion, Media, and Cultural Anxiety: Visual Representations of Childhood 155
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Eighteen - Wearing Communication: Home, Travel, Space 163
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Nineteen - The Equipped Body: Wearable Computers and Intelligent Fabrics 169
• References and Bibliography *
• Part IV - The Body and Tecnologies for Health and Well-Being *
• Chapter Twenty - Artificial Sensory Perception: Vicarious Technologies for Synesthesia 177
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Twenty-One - Health Care Technologies: the Contribution of Industrial Design 187
• References and Bibliography 194
• Chapter Twenty-Two - The Third Skin: Wearing the Car, Ignoring Safety 195
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Twenty-Three - Conditions of Microgravity and the Body's “second Skin” 201
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Twenty-Four - The Technologies of Body Visualization 209
• References and Bibliography *
• Chapter Twenty-Five - Conclusion: Bodies Mediating the Future 215
• References and Bibliography *
• Author Index 221
• Subject Index 227

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