Panel Statement (abstract)
“When we change the way we communicate, we change society”. This panel aims to provide audience with a context to understand how social media technologies and the daily updating of the self is challenging our preconceptions of screen-based ‘Internet’ communication and influencing the development of our cultural/ personal identity(s) and sense of self. It will explore the use of portable; individual; personal; non identical; devices and their impact to our current lives through the present innovative communication apps. The panel would question whether being intimate with technology, in a non-anthropocentric way could provide new critical reflections on the self and how gender stereotypes will form the Internet of Bodies and the future human / machine directions.
- Anastasios Maragiannis, Academic Portfolio Leader, Principal Lecturer in Design, University of Greenwich, London, UK
- Stacey Pitsillides, Lecturer in Design, University of Greenwich, London, UK
- Janins Jefferies, Professor of Visual Arts and Research, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
- Ghislaine Boddington, Reader in Digital Creative Industries, University of Greenwich and Director of Body Data Space, UK
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