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iMedia - The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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What 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 possible opening 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.
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