Acting Bodies and Social Networks: A Bridge Between Technology and Working Memory

This book analyzes the complex interactions of body, mind and microelectronic technologies. Internationally renowned scholars look into the nature of the mind - a combination of thought, perception, emotion, will and imagination - as well as the ever-increasing impact and complexity of microelectronic technologies.

Bianca Maria Pirani professor of sociology of cultural and communicative processes at Sapienza, University of Rome, is president of Research Committee 54, "The Body in the Social Sciences," of the International Sociological Association. She is an editorial board member of Sage Studies in International Sociology. Pirani has published widely on the relations between human bodies and social knowledge as editor of the monograph Bodily Order. Mind, Emotion and Social Memory, "Current Sociology" (March 2005, Sage publication), and co-editor with Ivan Varga of the book The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies.
Ivan Varga is professor emeritus of sociology, Queen's University, Canada and honorary president of Research Committee 22 "Sociology of Religion" of the International Sociological Association. Varga is a member of the editorial board of International Sociology.