Divining a digital future mess and mythology in ubiquitous computing

• Main Author: Dourish, Paul
• Other Authors: Bell, Genevieve
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
• Subjects: Ubiquitous computing.; Computer networks > Social aspects > Forecasting.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780262295345
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (x, 248 p.) : ill.

Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the authors' collaboration, this book takes seriously the need to understand ubicomp not only technically but also culturally, socially politically and economically.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: the myth and mess of ubiquitous computing
• Contextualizing ubiquitous computing
• Making room for the social and cultural
• A role of ethnography: methodology and theory
• What lies beneath
• Mobility and urbanism
• Rethinking privacy
• Domesticity and its discontents
• Reimagining ubiquitous computing: a conclusion.