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DOI 10.12887/28-2015-3-111-09



Ewa M. WALEWSKA – The Place and Role of the Body and the Senses in the Technologically Determined Networked Reality of the Early Twenty First Century: Selected Issues


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The article presents five selected issues concerning the impact of computerized devices, applications and the Web on the user’s body and senses that the author describes by the following terms: ‘counted and efficient body,’ ‘networked body,’ ‘virtual body,’ ‘the body recovered,’ and ‘the body in communication with the interfaces.’

The article discusses the new phenomena in which the body is entangled in the era of information technology. The author raises the topic of ‘self-counting’ trend and the Quantified Self community which promotes the idea of control, quantification and optimization of the daily functioning of the body by using the latest technology. Further, she presents virtual worlds as places of celebration of carnality and an escape from the laws of biology and physics, well known from ‘real life.’ She then describes emoticons as an expression of the need to update text communication on the Web with facial expressions, in which she emphasizes the enduring importance of the body in communication.

The author also presents augmented reality and devices such as Google Glass or HoloLens as an opportunity to ‘release’ the body disciplined by desktop computers. Finally, she discusses the role of the interactor’s carnal and sensual apparatus involved in the contact with modern interfaces. She describes using new types of interfaces which have led to a revaluation of the hierarchy of the senses in the user’s contact with computers and to the loss by vision of its so far undivided reign in this realm.

Keywords: body, senses, Quantified Self, avatar, virtual reality, emoticons, augmented reality, interfaces, touch user interface, touch screen, multi-touch, gestural messages, haptic feedback, gestural interface, Air Gesture, voice user interface, voice commands

Contact: Zakład Komunikacji Kulturowej, Instytut Nauk o Kulturze i Studiów Interdyscyplinarnych, Wydział Filologiczny,
Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Katowice, Pl. Sejmu Śląskiego 1, 40-032 Katowice, Poland

E-mail: ewa_walewska@o2.pl



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  1. ISSN 0860-8024
  2. e-ISSN 2720-5355
  3. The Republic of Poland Ministry of Science and Higher Education Value: 100.00
  4. Quarterly “Ethos” is indexed by the following databases: EBSCO, CEEOL, Index Copernicus (ICV 2017: 55.26), Philosopher’s Index, ERIH Plus.
  5. DOI Prefix 10.12887