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iMedia: The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials
Sarah Kember
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Description for iMedia: The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials
Hardback. Drawing on science and technology studies and feminist theory, iMedia examines the gendering of imedia or smart technologies such as smart phones and Google glass. Kember puts forward a lively manifesto for refiguring imedia, in reaction to what she identifies as a tendency to celebrate the existence of these often sexist objects. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCD; JFD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 258 x 17. Weight in Grams: 308.
What can queer feminist writing strategies such as parody and irony do to outsmart the sexism of smart objects, environments and materials and open out the new dialecticism of structure and scale, critique and creativity? Drawing on science and technology studies and feminist theory, this book examines the gendering of current and future media technologies such as smart phones, Google glass, robot nurses, tablets and face recognition. Kember argues that there is a tendency to affirm and celebrate the existence of smart and often sexist objects, environments and materials in themselves; to elide writing and other ... Read more
What can queer feminist writing strategies such as parody and irony do to outsmart the sexism of smart objects, environments and materials and open out the new dialecticism of structure and scale, critique and creativity? Drawing on science and technology studies and feminist theory, this book examines the gendering of current and future media technologies such as smart phones, Google glass, robot nurses, tablets and face recognition. Kember argues that there is a tendency to affirm and celebrate the existence of smart and often sexist objects, environments and materials in themselves; to elide writing and other ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
307g
Number of Pages
122
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137374844
SKU
V9781137374844
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About Sarah Kember
Sarah Kember is Professor of New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her recent publications include Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (2012). She is the Director of Goldsmiths Press and co-PI of an RCUK funded project on digital publishing (CREATe).
Reviews for iMedia: The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials
The book is ambitious in its attempts to enter and problematise a number of seemingly disparate theoretical fields and to orient them around its main concern ... . The book invites its reader to rethink the future of critical praxis and of feminist media theory and to explore their potential to create iWorlds. (Neda Genova, Radical Philosophy, Vol. 2 ... Read more