About the lecture

Body-centered computing now goes beyond the “wearable” to encompass implants, bionic technology and ingestible sensors—technologies that point to hybrid bodies and blurred boundaries between human, computer and artificial intelligence platforms. Such technologies promise to reconfigure the relationship between bodies and their environment, enabling new kinds of physiological interfacing, embodiment and productivity. Using the term embodied computing to describe these devices, this book talk describes a long-term computational project to track the embodied computing industry and describes essays by practitioners and scholars from a variety of disciplines that explore the accompanying ethical, social and conceptual issues.
 

About the speaker

Dr. Andrew Iliadis is an assistant professor at Temple University in the Department of Media Studies and Production (within Klein College of Media and Communication). He is the co-editor of Embodied Computing: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles (MIT Press, 2020) and author of the forthcoming book Semantic Media: Mapping Meaning on the Internet (Polity). His work has been published in the journals New Media & Society, Communication Theory, Global Media and Communication, Big Data & Society, Philosophy & Technology, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Journal of Communication Pedagogyand Online Information Review, among others.