Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communications


The Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication (SSSMC) is intended to facilitate the international advancement of cross-disciplinary mobile communication studies. It is intended to serve as a resource and to support a network of scholarly research as to the social consequences of mobile communication.




Wednesday, January 1, 2003

Mediating the Human Body

Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion

Leopoldina Fortunati, James Katz, and Raimonda Riccini (eds.)

Book Description
T his Erlbaum Publishers book (2003) book contains 25 chapters in four major sections (The Body Between Science, Technology, and Art; The Body Communicating Between Technology, Fashion, and Identy; Dressing Technologies; The Body and Technologies for Health and Well-Being), with introductory and concluding chapters by L. Fortunati, J. Katz and R. Riccini.

Bringing together scholarship from a variety of disciplines, including communication, robotics, medicine, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction, this distinctive anthology will provide new insights to scholars and advanced students exploring body-technology intersections and the attendant implications. Mediating the Human Body offers a unique contribution to future discussions, and will be relevant to continuing study and research in communication and technology, human-computer interaction, gender studies, social psychology, sociology and industrial design.

Citation:

Fortunati, L., Katz, J. E., & Riccini, R. (Eds.) (2003). Mediating the human body: Technology, communication and fashion. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.