Abstract
Our recent recognition and celebration of the body as a site of consumption means that we have allowed into our lives an array of technological and mobile artifacts designed to lure our cognitive senses away from the communal and into the personal. The personal space is a coveted commodity where new technologies, innovative designs and convergence occur and coalesce. The inbuilt surveillance mechanisms within mobile technologies and the constant circulation of bodies nevertheless constitute new forms of gaze, consumption and surveillance, which have wider implications for postmodern societies. This counter-gaze of the technologically connected bodies presents the potential for empowerment and connection with wider society, yet it inadvertently raises new conundrums where the politics of gazing present new ethical and moral dilemmas for humanity.
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Ibrahim, Y. (2010). The Wired Body and Event Construction: Mobile Technologies and the Technological Gaze. In: Kalantzis-Cope, P., Gherab-Martín, K. (eds) Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299047_20
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