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Leopoldina Fortunati
The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive and 'caring' labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970s
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Leopoldina Fortunati, Carla Lonzi
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The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture provides a comprehensive guide to the key concepts, theories, and studies on what social robots represent for individuals, cultures, and…
Electronic emotion is the emotion lived, re-lived or discovered through machines. It is the emotion that users of information and communication technologies (ICTs) feel when using or not using different…
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Broadband Society and Generational Changes
Discusses the personal and social lives of e-actors interacting within the socio-technical structures of the evolving broadband society by exploring the different ways in which individuals, social groups, institutions, operators…
Migrants & diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information & communication technologies. This text explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups…
The book presents studies on the ways in which individual users integrate ICTs into their lives. These uses often run counter to the design intent of the developers of ICTs…
Discussing a wide array of topics on how the body and technology interact, this work aims to improve our understanding of the experience of body as it is mediated among…
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the human dimension of social robots by discussing both transnational features and national peculiarities. Addressing several issues that explore the human side of…
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This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China.
This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China. Drawing on examples from a wide range of contemporary situations in China and beyond…
This book examines the social consequences of mobile communication in the era of the smartphone and how the smartphone has positively and negatively impacted society.
Explores the active role of people, collectively and individually, in shaping the use of information and communication technologies. This work examines issues around acquiring and using that knowledge of users…
Attempts to explore the relationship between new technologies and global societies, to gain an understanding of how the positive as well as negative influences of technologies bear on global societies…
