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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821551903321

Titolo

Learning from memory : body, memory and technology in a globalizing world / / edited by Bianca Maria Pirani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011

ISBN

1-283-14319-4

9786613143198

1-4438-3114-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PiraniBianca Maria

Disciplina

303.4834

Soggetti

Technology - Sociological aspects

Memory - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Memory and the enhanced body -- pt. 2. The social nature of the body : synchronization, networks and technologies.

Sommario/riassunto

This challenging book, Other 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 thos...