Mundania How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary

• Main Author: Willim, Robert
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol Bristol University Press 2024
• Subjects: Annan humaniora och konst; Atmosphere; Communication studies; Computing and Information Technology; Cultural and media studies; Cultural Studies; Design; Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects; Digital culture; Emerging technologies; Ethical issues and debates; Everyday life; History of engineering and technology; Humaniora och konst; Humanities and the Arts; Information technology: general topics; Infrastructure; Interdisciplinary studies; JBCC2 Material culture; JBCT1 Media studies: internet, digital media and society; JBFV5 Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments; Kulturstudier; Media studies; Media theory; Other Humanities; Other Humanities not elsewhere specified; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Social and ethical issues; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; Technology: general issues; Övrig annan humaniora
• ISBN: 1529221447; 9781529221459; 9781529221466; 9781529221442; 1529221463; 9781529221480; 152922148X; 1529221455; 1529221471; 9781529221473
• DOI: 10.51952/9781529221473

Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Digital services, platforms and arrangements are often promoted as smooth and convenient, smart or intelligent. When introduced, devices can appear utterly fascinating or awkward, even disquieting. Eventually, however, they soon disappear in the muddle of everyday life. This is how Mundania takes form. Based on original research, this book uses the concept of mundania to better understand technological change. Scholar-artist Robert Willim deftly unpacks the interplay between everyday life and the immense complexity of technological infrastructures. Offering imaginative new insights into our relationship with technology, this book will appeal to readers in a range of fields from science and technology studies and media studies to the arts.