Learning from Memory: Body, Memory and Technology in a Globalizing World - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 144382884X ISBN 13: 9781443828840

Casa editrice: Cambridge Scholars Pub, 2011

Riassunto

This challenging book, with excellent contributions from international social scientists, focuses on the link between body and memory that specifically refers to the use of digital technologies. Neuroscientists know very well that human beings automatically and unconsciously organize their experience in their bodies into spatial units whose confines are established by changes in location, temporality and the interactive elements that determine it. Our memories might be less reliable than those of the average computer, but they are just as capacious, much more flexible, and even more user-friendly. The aim of the present book is to outline, by the body, what we know of the sociology of memory. The authors and editor believe that an analysis at the sociological level will prove valuable in throwing light on accounts of human behavior at the interpersonal and social level, and will play an important role in our capacity to understand the neurobiological factors that underpin the various types of memory.

"Learning from Memory: Body, Memory and Technology in a Globalizing World, edited by one of the most distinguished and internationally acclaimed scholars on the body in social sciences, Bianca Maria Pirani, is a compendium of excellent contributions by international social scientists from several research traditions and focuses on the link between body and memory that specifically refers to the use of digital technologies. Without slighting the perspectives ranging from the social sciences to cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience and biology, a sociological analysis of the concerned phenomena has been undertaken profoundly. The book contains ideal resource material both on the sociology of body and memory and will surely be read and enjoyed by members of the general public and the professional audience alike."---Ishwar Modi, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; Director, India International Institute of Social Science; ISA Executive Committee Member

"The relationship of the body to technology has become a paradigmatic topic of our times. The volume entitled Learning from Memory: Body, Memory and Technology in a Globalizing World, edited by Bianca Maria Pirani addresses a vast array of questions, from memory to social bonds, through a perspicacious focus on subjects such as the technique of the body, implicit memories, actor-centered decision making, and social networks. Historians, socioanthropologists, anthropologists and neurosociologists, bringing their disciplines to bear on the subject, yield some stunning perspectives on these issues."---Professor Pierre Bouvier, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre, Laios/Iiac, France

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Informazioni sull?autore

Bianca Maria Pirani, Professor of Sociology of Cultural Networks at the Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Political Sciences, Communication, and Sociology, "Sapienza," University of Rome, Italy, is President of the 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. She has published widely on the ever increasing insights into the relations between human bodies and social knowledge as the editor of the following publications: "Bodily Order. Mind, Emotion and Social Memory" in Current Sociology, vol. 53 n. 2 (Sage, 2006); The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008); and Acting Bodies and Social Networks (University Press of America, 2009). Her forthcoming book is Empowerment: the Body and the Spatial Cognition in the Information Society.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge Scholars Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 144382884X
• ISBN 13: 9781443828840
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 350
• Redattore: Pirani Bianca Maria
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile