Technosex

Technosex
Author: Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2016-08-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319281429

In this book, Meenakshi Gigi Durham outlines and advances a progressive feminist framework for digital ethics in the technosexual landscape, exploring the complex and evolving interrelationships between sex and tech. Today we live in a “sexscape,” a globalized assemblage of media, transnational capital, sexual practices, and identities. Sexuality suffuses the contemporary media-saturated environment; we engage with sex via cellphone apps and airport TVs, billboards and Jumbotron screens. Our techniques of sexual representation and body transformation — from sexting to plastic surgeries — occur in relation to our deep and complex engagements with mediated images of desire. These technosexual interactions hold the promise of sexual liberation and boldly imaginative pleasures. But in the machinic suturing of technologies with bodies, the politics of race, class, gender, and nation continue to matter. Paying acute attention to media’s relationship to the politics of location, social hierarchies, and regulatory schemas, the author mounts a lucid and passionate argument for an ethics of technosex invested in the analysis of power.

Sex, Technology and Public Health

Sex, Technology and Public Health
Author: M. Davis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2008-11-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230228380

Exploring the implications of the internet and bio-technologies for intimate and sexual life, this book discusses the concept of citizenship in relation to the extension of public health through the internet, and reveals concerns that sexually transmitted infections and HIV are associated with such technologies.

Good Robot, Bad Robot

Good Robot, Bad Robot
Author: Jo Ann Oravec
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031140133

This book explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives but also have unsettling “dark sides.” It examines expanding forms of negativity and anxiety about robots, AI, and autonomous vehicles as our human environments are reengineered for intelligent military and security systems and for optimal workplace and domestic operations. It focuses on the impacts of initiatives to make robot interactions more humanlike and less creepy (as with domestic and sex robots). It analyzes the emerging resistances against these entities in the wake of omnipresent AI applications (such as “killer robots” and ubiquitous surveillance). It unpacks efforts by developers to have ethical and social influences on robotics and AI, and confronts the AI hype that is designed to shield the entities from criticism. The book draws from science fiction, dramaturgical, ethical, and legal literatures as well as current research agendas of corporations. Engineers, implementers, and researchers have often encountered users' fears and aggressive actions against intelligent entities, especially in the wake of deaths of humans by robots and autonomous vehicles. The book is an invaluable resource for developers and researchers in the field, as well as curious readers who want to play proactive roles in shaping future technologies.

CyberSociety

CyberSociety
Author: Steve Jones
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 253
Release: 1995
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0803956770

Deals with computer mediated communication

Virtual Politics

Virtual Politics
Author: Dr David Holmes, Llb
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997-12-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781446240069

Virtual Politics is a critical overview of the new - digital - body politic, with new technologies framing the discussion of key themes in social theory. This book shows how these new technologies are altering the nature of identity and agency, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.

Cyborg Babies

Cyborg Babies
Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135240922

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Body Talk

Body Talk
Author: Mary M. Lay
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2000
Genre: Feminism
ISBN: 9780299167943

This text explores the rhetoric of reproductive technology throughout the 20th century, examining the ways discourse about these technologies has shaped thinking about reproduction and women's bodies, framed public policy and empowered or marginalized points of view.

Heidegger, Reproductive Technology, & The Motherless Age

Heidegger, Reproductive Technology, & The Motherless Age
Author: Dana S. Belu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2017-03-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319506064

Dana S. Belu combines Heidegger’s phenomenology of technology with feminist phenomenology in order to make sense of the increased technicization of women’s reproductive bodies during conception, pregnancy, and birth.

Bodies of Technology

Bodies of Technology
Author: Ann Rudinow Saetnan
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2000
Genre: Cross-cultural studies
ISBN: 9780814208465

This work is based on a concern for women's health and autonomy and on the premise that technology and society mutually shape one another. A basic question is one of cultural appropriation. Do technologies take on different shapes, different practices, and have different impacts as they spread from one place to another? By juxtaposing a number of culturally and historically contextualized studies of similar technologies, the editors demonstrate that although technologies globalize by spreading among cultures, they are also localized by the cultures they encounter.

Birthing Techno-Sapiens

Birthing Techno-Sapiens
Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1000364631

This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens—a new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies. While some of its chapters are imaginary, they are all empirically grounded in ethnography and richly theorized from diverse disciplines. The authors go far beyond a techno-optimism vs. techno-pessimism stance, stretching our thinking about birthing techno-sapiens to consider not only how our cyborgian reproductive lives are constrained and/or enabled by technology but are also about emotions and spirit. The world of reproductive health care and particularly that of genetic engineering is developing exponentially, and current challenges are vastly different from those of a decade ago. The book is provocative, intended to generate debate, ideas, and future research and to influence ethical policy and practice in human techno-reproduction. It will be of interest across the social sciences and humanities, for reproductive scholars, bioethicists, techno-scientists, and those involved in the development and delivery of maternity services.