This text explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. From foetuses scanned electronically to wired toddlers, children are being rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture. The contributors, who include Sherry Turkle, Emily Martin and Mikuko Ito, discuss the co-development of the human and the machine. While much popular reporting swings between presenting technology as monstrous or science as saviour, this volume argues for a more complex analysis, and provides a range of perspectives from cultural anthropologists...
This text explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. From foetuses scanned elec...