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Nick Crossley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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mapping reflexive Body techniques on Body Modification and maintenance
Body & Society, 2005Co-Authors: Nick CrossleyAbstract:This article aims to do two things. The first of these is to introduce the concept of reflexive Body techniques into the debate on Body Modification/maintenance. The value of the concept in relation to this debate, in part, is that it ensures that we conceive of the Body as both a subject and an object, modifier and modified, and that we thereby avoid the trap of conceptualizing Modification in dualistic (mind/Body or Body/society) terms. Second, the article seeks to explore the pattern of distribution of practices of Modification (conceived as reflexive Body techniques) through society and to reflect upon the potential usefulness of multi-dimensional scaling as a tool for doing this. This aim is related to the first aim as it is argued that the concept of reflexive Body techniques serves to identify and anchor practices ofModification in a way that is amenable to both quantitative and qualitative forms of analysis, as well as theoretical investigation.
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the circuit trainer s habitus reflexive Body techniques and the sociality of the workout
Body & Society, 2004Co-Authors: Nick CrossleyAbstract:In this article I discuss some of the findings of an on-going ethnographic study of two once-weekly circuit training classes held in one of the growing number of private health and fitness clubs. The article has four aims. First, to demonstrate and explore the active role of the Body in a central practice of Body Modification/maintenance: i.e. circuit training. Second, to demonstrate that circuit training is a social structure which both shapes the activity of the agent and is shaped by that (shaped) agent. I aim also to explore this structuration process. Third, to draw out a number of aspects of the sociality of Body maintenance/Modification. Training, I argue, is a form of symbolic interaction, localized within specific and durable social networks. The final aim of the article is to weave these various claims together into a coherent overall account of circuit training as a form of Body Modification. As an investigation of the embodied nature of practices of Body maintenance and the active role of soci...
Gayle Brewer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Perception of human Body Modification
Personality and Individual Differences, 2009Co-Authors: Silke Wohlrab, B. Fink, Peter M. Kappeler, Gayle BrewerAbstract:The enhancement of physical attractiveness through Body Modifications, such as tattoos is evident in a wide range of cultures and has recently become popular also in Westernized societies. Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that these invasive Body Modifications could possibly act as handicap signals in sexual selection. However, knowledge about the actual signalling quality of Body Modification and its perception is still scarce. In this present study a sample of 278 men and women rated images of tattooed and non-tattooed virtual human characters for perceived aggression, attractiveness, dominance, health, masculinity (Male figures), and femininity (female figures). Tattooed male characters were perceived as more dominant, and tattooed female characters as less healthy compared with their non-tattooed counterparts. Female raters were more likely to perceive tattooed men as healthy than male raters. We discuss these results in view of a potential biological signalling function of tattoos. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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perception of human Body Modification
Personality and Individual Differences, 2009Co-Authors: Silke Wohlrab, B. Fink, Peter M. Kappeler, Gayle BrewerAbstract:The enhancement of physical attractiveness through Body Modifications, such as tattoos is evident in a wide range of cultures and has recently become popular also in Westernized societies. Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that these invasive Body Modifications could possibly act as handicap signals in sexual selection. However, knowledge about the actual signalling quality of Body Modification and its perception is still scarce. In this present study a sample of 278 men and women rated images of tattooed and non-tattooed virtual human characters for perceived aggression, attractiveness, dominance, health, masculinity (male figures), and femininity (female figures). Tattooed male characters were perceived as more dominant, and tattooed female characters as less healthy compared with their non-tattooed counterparts. Female raters were more likely to perceive tattooed men as healthy than male raters. We discuss these results in view of a potential biological signalling function of tattoos.
Silke Wohlrab - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Perception of human Body Modification
Personality and Individual Differences, 2009Co-Authors: Silke Wohlrab, B. Fink, Peter M. Kappeler, Gayle BrewerAbstract:The enhancement of physical attractiveness through Body Modifications, such as tattoos is evident in a wide range of cultures and has recently become popular also in Westernized societies. Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that these invasive Body Modifications could possibly act as handicap signals in sexual selection. However, knowledge about the actual signalling quality of Body Modification and its perception is still scarce. In this present study a sample of 278 men and women rated images of tattooed and non-tattooed virtual human characters for perceived aggression, attractiveness, dominance, health, masculinity (Male figures), and femininity (female figures). Tattooed male characters were perceived as more dominant, and tattooed female characters as less healthy compared with their non-tattooed counterparts. Female raters were more likely to perceive tattooed men as healthy than male raters. We discuss these results in view of a potential biological signalling function of tattoos. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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perception of human Body Modification
Personality and Individual Differences, 2009Co-Authors: Silke Wohlrab, B. Fink, Peter M. Kappeler, Gayle BrewerAbstract:The enhancement of physical attractiveness through Body Modifications, such as tattoos is evident in a wide range of cultures and has recently become popular also in Westernized societies. Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that these invasive Body Modifications could possibly act as handicap signals in sexual selection. However, knowledge about the actual signalling quality of Body Modification and its perception is still scarce. In this present study a sample of 278 men and women rated images of tattooed and non-tattooed virtual human characters for perceived aggression, attractiveness, dominance, health, masculinity (male figures), and femininity (female figures). Tattooed male characters were perceived as more dominant, and tattooed female characters as less healthy compared with their non-tattooed counterparts. Female raters were more likely to perceive tattooed men as healthy than male raters. We discuss these results in view of a potential biological signalling function of tattoos.
Bryan Semaan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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manifesting the cyborg through techno Body Modification from human computer interaction to integration
Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017Co-Authors: Lauren M Britton, Bryan SemaanAbstract:A community of DIY cyborgs has emerged, known as 'grinders', who practice techno-Body Modification-the embedding of computing technology into the Body. This paper reports on an ethnographic study following GrinderTech, an organization working to design, build and sell these technological artifacts, as it shifts from hacker collective to biotech startup. As technologies are embedded in the Body, the boundary between human and machine starts to blur. We find that GrinderTech members, through the design and making of technologies for embedding, do so as a means to move beyond social and gendered binary constructions-or, societal norms that are practiced and performed, and re-enforced through language, as a way of creating power differentials in society, e.g. citizen/scientist and man/woman. Moreover, their motivations for designing and making these devices reflects their desire to re-imagine society. Finally, we re-conceptualize Human-Computer Interaction to include Integration-when technology is embedded in the human Body-and discuss the theoretical and design implications of human-computer integration.
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CHI - Manifesting the Cyborg through Techno-Body Modification: From Human-Computer Interaction to Integration
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017Co-Authors: Lauren M Britton, Bryan SemaanAbstract:A community of DIY cyborgs has emerged, known as 'grinders', who practice techno-Body Modification-the embedding of computing technology into the Body. This paper reports on an ethnographic study following GrinderTech, an organization working to design, build and sell these technological artifacts, as it shifts from hacker collective to biotech startup. As technologies are embedded in the Body, the boundary between human and machine starts to blur. We find that GrinderTech members, through the design and making of technologies for embedding, do so as a means to move beyond social and gendered binary constructions-or, societal norms that are practiced and performed, and re-enforced through language, as a way of creating power differentials in society, e.g. citizen/scientist and man/woman. Moreover, their motivations for designing and making these devices reflects their desire to re-imagine society. Finally, we re-conceptualize Human-Computer Interaction to include Integration-when technology is embedded in the human Body-and discuss the theoretical and design implications of human-computer integration.
Sari L Reisner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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social network organization structure and patterns of influence within a community of transgender women in lima peru implications for biomedical hiv prevention
Aids and Behavior, 2020Co-Authors: Jesse L Clark, Amaya Perezbrumer, Sari L Reisner, Ximena Salazar, Sarah Mclean, Leyla Huerta, Alfonso Silvasantisteban, K M MoriartyAbstract:Understanding social network structures can contribute to the introduction of new HIV prevention strategies with socially marginalized populations like transgender women (TW). We conducted 20 semi-structured interviews and four focus groups (n = 32) with TW from selected social networks in Lima, Peru between May and July, 2015. Participants described layers of social influence from diverse actors in their social networks. The majority identified a close relative as their primary social support, with whom they confided secrets but avoided issues of transgender identity, sexuality, and sex work. Participants described close circles of TW friends with whom they shared information about gender identity, Body Modification, and sexual partners, but avoided issues like HIV. Community leadership included political leaders (who advocated for transgender rights) as well as social leaders (who introduced TW to hormone therapy, Body Modification, and commercial sex). Detailed analysis of TW social networks can contribute to implementation and acceptability of new HIV prevention technologies.
