The proliferation of social media applications such as online communities, social networking
sites, or blogs gives the public new means for receiving, and importantly, providing …

Gesture Studies aims to publish book-length publications on all aspects of gesture. These
include, for instance, the relationship between gesture and speech; the role gesture may …

Reflexivity is a well-established theoretical and methodological concept in the human
sciences, and yet it is used in a confusing variety of ways. The meaning ofreflexivity'and the …

In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Opportunity first began transmitting
images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red …

DNA profiling—commonly known as DNA fingerprinting—is often heralded as unassailable
criminal evidence, a veritable “truth machine” that can overturn convictions based on …

The question of how modern human behaviour emerged from pre-human hominid
behaviour is central to discussions of human evolution. This important book argues that the …

This paper explores a new way of designing and experimenting with the city. How are we to
conceptualize the changes in contemporary cities on the basis of their ambiances? What …

Our aim in this chapter is to show how discursive psychology (DP) deals with psychological
states and characteristics. We do this in several ways: by defining what DP is, by …

This chapter presents an approach to understanding how people learn and use their bodies
to participate in the cultural practices of technoscience.'Our analyses are organized around …

The term microethnography, which has come to denote the microscopic analysis of naturally
occurring human activities and interactions, has a curious history It was originally suggested …