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Body and Time - Bodily Rhythms and Social Synchronism in the Digital Media Society (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Body and Time - Bodily Rhythms and Social Synchronism in the Digital Media Society (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Body and Time is an innovative and concise survey of penetrating
essays, conceptualizing the body as a physiological system embedded
in a social network. In its complex and multilayered structure, it
is aligned to and overlaps with other related functions.
Contributors to this publication are members of the International
Sociological Association Research Committee 54 - `The Body in the
Social Sciences', and their contributions specifically refer to the
RC54 Mid-Term Conference - `The Mobile Interface and Social
Change', held at `Sapienza', University of Rome, 6 December,
2012.What distinguishes the architecture of the book is that,
collectively, it constitutes a challenge to the digital media
paradigm in which the body is treated simply as a two dimensional
icon of space and time; a relatively `free form' with all kinds of
narratives generated by the multimedia.Order in sequence should,
indeed, be the key phrase incorporating four incisive problems
dealt with in the thirteen chapters forming the `body' of the book:
identity, temporality, hierarchy and territoriality. In short, the
volume demonstrates how fundamentally different ways of
experiencing time are also determined by the differing cultural use
of bodily rhythms - a `two-sided narration' namely, of space and
time. Central to the understanding of this interdependence is the
study of interpersonal synchronization - increasing knowledge
through the investigation of how rhythm, music, chants, dance,
prayer and other harmonizing practices support social
integration.This book will attract wide interest, especially from
students, researchers and academics in the social sciences,
neurosociology, digital studies and further afield.
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