Social Science Of 100 Objects To Be Launched In February 2013

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Published by University of Leicester Press Office for University of Leicester in Education and also in Communities, Environment, Health

New University of Leicester project examines the familiar from a new perspective   • Is the mobile phone a tool for inverse surveillance? • How the cotton bobbin has come to represent the deindustrialisation of the Leicester labour market • How the television has become an electronic babysitter for the incarcerated You can listen to a podcast interview with Dr Jane Pilcher here: https://soundcloud.com/university-of-leicester/social-science-of-100-objects A picture of Dr Pilche...

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