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Introduction / Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, Raimonda Riccini
PART I. THE BODY BETWEEN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ART
Body: artificialization and transparency / Tomás Maldonado
Body and technology: continuity or discontinuity? / Giuseppe O. Longo
Bodies and robots / Marco Somalvico
Sade triumphant: the body in contemporary art / Raimondo Strassoldo
Narrated body: the representation of corporeality in contemporary literature / Ada Neiger
Real people, artificial bodies / Leopoldina Fortunati
PART II. THE BODY COMMUNICATING BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY, FASHION, AND IDENTITY
Cross-cultural comparisons of ICT's / James E. Katz ... [et al.]
Mobile phone tribes: youth and social identity / Claire Lobet-Maris
Fashion and vulgarity in the adoption of the mobile telephone among teens in Norway / Richard Ling
Extension of the hand: children's and teenagers' relationship with the mobile phone in Finland / Virpi Oksman, Pirjo Rautiainen
Women's identities and everyday technologies / Raimonda Riccini
Body to body: copresence in communication / Alberta Contarello
Next frontier of technology: awaiting UMTS / Giovanni Strocchi
PART III. DRESSING TECHNOLOGIES
Slaves and free people in the gaily colored empire / Giorgio Pacifici, Paolo Girardi
Inside the surface: technology in modern textiles / Elda Danese
Fashion, media, and cultural anxiety: visual representations of childhood / Susan B. Kaiser
Wearing communication: home, travel, space / Patrizia Calefato
Equipped body: wearable computers and intelligent fabrics / Anna Poli
PART IV. THE BODY AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Artificial sensory perception: vicarious technologies for synesthesia / Dina Riccò
Health care technologies: the contribution of industrial design / Medardo Chiapponi
Third skin: wearing the car, ignoring safety / Jorge Frascara
Conditions of microgravity and the body's "second skin" / Annalisa Dominoni
Technologies of body visualization / Paolo Gerundini, Massimo Castellani
Conclusion: Bodies mediating the future / Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, Raimonda Riccini.
PART I. THE BODY BETWEEN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ART
Body: artificialization and transparency / Tomás Maldonado
Body and technology: continuity or discontinuity? / Giuseppe O. Longo
Bodies and robots / Marco Somalvico
Sade triumphant: the body in contemporary art / Raimondo Strassoldo
Narrated body: the representation of corporeality in contemporary literature / Ada Neiger
Real people, artificial bodies / Leopoldina Fortunati
PART II. THE BODY COMMUNICATING BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY, FASHION, AND IDENTITY
Cross-cultural comparisons of ICT's / James E. Katz ... [et al.]
Mobile phone tribes: youth and social identity / Claire Lobet-Maris
Fashion and vulgarity in the adoption of the mobile telephone among teens in Norway / Richard Ling
Extension of the hand: children's and teenagers' relationship with the mobile phone in Finland / Virpi Oksman, Pirjo Rautiainen
Women's identities and everyday technologies / Raimonda Riccini
Body to body: copresence in communication / Alberta Contarello
Next frontier of technology: awaiting UMTS / Giovanni Strocchi
PART III. DRESSING TECHNOLOGIES
Slaves and free people in the gaily colored empire / Giorgio Pacifici, Paolo Girardi
Inside the surface: technology in modern textiles / Elda Danese
Fashion, media, and cultural anxiety: visual representations of childhood / Susan B. Kaiser
Wearing communication: home, travel, space / Patrizia Calefato
Equipped body: wearable computers and intelligent fabrics / Anna Poli
PART IV. THE BODY AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Artificial sensory perception: vicarious technologies for synesthesia / Dina Riccò
Health care technologies: the contribution of industrial design / Medardo Chiapponi
Third skin: wearing the car, ignoring safety / Jorge Frascara
Conditions of microgravity and the body's "second skin" / Annalisa Dominoni
Technologies of body visualization / Paolo Gerundini, Massimo Castellani
Conclusion: Bodies mediating the future / Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, Raimonda Riccini.