LEADER 03681nam 22006255 450 001 9910255308603321 005 20240311155128.0 010 $a9781349677085 010 $a1349677086 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137374851 035 $a(CKB)4230000000000127 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001665980 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16455202 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001665980 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14999900 035 $a(PQKB)10980684 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-37485-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4720562 035 $a(PPN)193447134 035 $a(Perlego)3490307 035 $a(EXLCZ)994230000000000127 100 $a20160404d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aiMedia $eThe Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials /$fby Sarah Kember 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (VI, 122 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Pivot 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781137374844 311 08$a1137374845 311 08$a9781137374851 311 08$a1137374853 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface : A tale of smoke and mirrors or where is the i in iMedia? -- introduction : objects, environments and materials -- iMedia manifesto part I : remember Cinderella : glass as a fantasy figure of feminine and feminized labor -- Ubiquitous women : everywhere, everyware and everywear -- interlude 1 : excerpt from A day in the life of Janet Smart -- iMedia manifesto part II : tell a her story : on writer as queer feminist praxis -- interlude 2 : excerpt from A day in the life of Janet Smart -- Conclusion : iMedia otherwise. 330 $aWhat can queer feminist writing strategies such as parody and irony do to outsmart the sexism of smart objects, environments and materials and open out the new dialecticism of structure and scale, critique and creativity? Drawing on science and technology studies and feminist theory, this book examines the gendering of current and future media technologies such as smart phones, Google glass, robot nurses, tablets and face recognition. Kember argues that there is a tendency to affirm and celebrate the existence of smart and often sexist objects, environments and materials in themselves; to elide writing and other forms of mediation; and to engage in disembodied knowledge practices. Disembodied knowledge practices tend towards a scientism that currently includes physics envy and are also masculinist. Where there is some degree of convergence between masculinist and feminist thinking about objects, environments and materials, there is also divergence, conflict and the possibleopening towards a politics of imedia. Presenting a lively manifesto for refiguring imedia, this book forms an often neglected gender critique of developments in smart technologies and will be essential reading for scholars in Communication Studies, Cultural and Media, Science and Technology and Feminism. 410 0$aPalgrave pivot. 606 $aSex 606 $aScience$xSocial aspects 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aScience and Technology Studies 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aScience$xSocial aspects. 615 14$aGender Studies. 615 24$aScience and Technology Studies. 676 $a306.091 700 $aKember$b Sarah$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01040791 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255308603321 996 $aIMedia$92518157 997 $aUNINA