... This chapter sets out the infrastructure of the official world: its staging media and anthropotechnics. It sets outs the “vicarious life” of the official world and the interactive character of its forms of life. It describes the somatic biographies of the lethal and reincarnative...

... The chapter follows a body of social-science literature that has significantly impacted how doctors and other health professionals are trained and the fine-grained, moment-to-moment dynamics of how they interact with patients. The purpose of the guidelines they promote is to help caregivers...

... This chapter tracks interactive television in the service of entertainment and community-building. Producers sought to construct programs that not only enabled a dialog between themselves and audiences but also generated a sense of collective identity among audiences. This chapter uses two shows...

... This module represents the interacting zone, which pertains to the possibilities of interpersonal inquiry and interaction. Using the data sets and data-gathering questions as guides, the focus is on specific questions and methods needed for fieldwork involvement as well as multimodal materials...

...New Technologies, Timeless Knowledges<subtitle>Digital and Interactive Media</subtitle> ...