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The Wired Body and Event Construction: Mobile Technologies and the Technological Gaze

In: Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society

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  • Yasmin Ibrahim

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Our recent recognition and celebration of the body as a site of consumption means that we have allowed into our lives an array of technological and mobile artifacts designed to lure our cognitive senses away from the communal and into the personal. The personal space is a coveted commodity where new technologies, innovative designs and convergence occur and coalesce. The inbuilt surveillance mechanisms within mobile technologies and the constant circulation of bodies nevertheless constitute new forms of gaze, consumption and surveillance, which have wider implications for postmodern societies. This counter-gaze of the technologically connected bodies presents the potential for empowerment and connection with wider society, yet it inadvertently raises new conundrums where the politics of gazing present new ethical and moral dilemmas for humanity.

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  • Yasmin Ibrahim, 2010. "The Wired Body and Event Construction: Mobile Technologies and the Technological Gaze," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Phillip Kalantzis-Cope & Karim Gherab-Martín (ed.), Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, chapter 5, pages 123-125, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29904-7_20
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230299047_20
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