Digital Bodies
Author | : Jessie Daniels |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-11-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781447329077 |
ISBN-13 | : 1447329074 |
Rating | : 4/5 (074 Downloads) |
Download or read book Digital Bodies written by Jessie Daniels and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of the internet, we assumed that digital technologies would allow us to escape embodiment and its accompanying entanglements. Yet now our embodied selves are often targeted for abuse and harassment online. As we move into the Internet of Things, the digital is increasingly on and in our bodies. The pieces in this Byte raise important questions about what it means to bring our embodied selves into contact with digital media technologies. Read alongside one another, the selections here expand our understanding of what it means to live in and through bodies augmented by digital technologies within a deeply unequal social world.