Acting Bodies and Social Networks (eBook)

Bianca Maria Pirani professor of sociology of cultural and communicative processes at Sapienza, University of Rome, is president of Research Committee 54, 'The Body in the Social Sciences,' of the International Sociological Association. She is an editorial board member of Sage Studies in International Sociology. Pirani has published widely on the relations between human bodies and social knowledge as editor of the monograph Bodily Order. Mind, Emotion and Social Memory, 'Current Sociology' (March 2005, Sage publication), and co-editor with Ivan Varga of the book The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies. Ivan Varga is professor emeritus of sociology, Queen's University, Canada and honorary president of Research Committee 22 'Sociology of Religion' of the International Sociological Association. Varga is a member of the editorial board of International Sociology.

Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 1. Utopian BodiesChapter 4 2. Obama as Charismatic IconChapter 5 3. A Social Icon: the "Squart"Chapter 6 4. Philosophy as MemoryChapter 7 5. Icons, Symbols, CulturesChapter 8 6. Increasing Diversity in a Changing EuropePart 9 Second Part: Social Icons of the Body: Empirical Case-studiesChapter 10 7. The Play Actors: Fleeing Bodies, Remaining Prudishness or...Body under control?Chapter 11 8. Body Cult and Consumption: Fashion and Beauty in the Construction of LifestylesChapter 12 9. Because also I Am Worthy: the Male Body on the StageChapter 13 10. Spectacular Boobs. An in-depth look at Sex-themed Restaurants and their Female WaitressesChapter 14 11. Southern Bodies: Bodies, Gender and Sexuality in World SocietyChapter 15 12. How Do I Change His Nappy? Disabled Mothers and Cyber-communityPart 16 Volume Two: Mapping Bodies in Networked SpacePart 17 First Part: The Body and its Prosthetics: LaboratoriesChapter 18 1. . . . a body under the bushes: Ghosts in the MachineChapter 19 2. About the Technological BricoleurChapter 20 3. Cyborg Identity and Contemporary Techno-utopias: Adaptations and Transformations of the Body in the Age of NanotechnologyChapter 21 4. Body becoming architecture: A continuum for the body's interface with architecture through digital networksChapter 22 5. Resistances of the Body. The Presence of the Human Body in the Automated WorldChapter 23 6. Social Bodies and Locative TechnologiesPart 24 Second Part: Technology, Physiology and MemoryChapter 25 Neurosociological Foundations of Social Networks: Distress-dependent Synaptic Architecture in Social SystemsChapter 26 Technology, Memory and the (Mind) Body:Towards the Integration of the Biological and the Cultural in the Analysis of Human Social BehaviorChapter 27 Technology and the Body in Aboriginal Identity MakingChapter 28 Bodies in Canyoneering: an Essay on Socio-geographic MappingChapter 29 Bodies in Action: Performing Identity in Dating SitesChapter 30 From the Developing Mind to Developing TechnologyChapter 31 PostscriptChapter 32 About the contributors