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Divining a digital future : mess and mythology in ubiquitous computing / Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell

Dourish, Paul, 1966-

Online-Ausg.

Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT Press, 2011

Online-Ressource (x, 248 p.) : ill.

Englisch

Introduction: the myth and mess of ubiquitous computingContextualizing 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries

Buchausg. u.d.T.: Divining a digital future / Dourish, Paul

978-0-262-01555-4 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0-262-29610-1 ; 978-0-262-29610-6 ; 978-0-262-29534-5 (e-book); 1-283-11902-1 (ebk)

978-0-262-01555-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

2010038387

809313405; 681281812

OCoLC: 839016279     

OCoLC: 727944959 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

SR 850  | ST 200      Ähnliche Literatur

QA76.5915

303.4833 ; 303.48/33

Basisklassifikation: 71.43 (Technologische Faktoren) <Soziologie>

*Ubiquitous Computing ; Gesellschaft      Zum Register

*Ubiquitous Computing ; Gesellschaft      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Ubiquitous computing ; Computer networks -- Social aspects -- Forecasting ; Electronic books ; Ubiquitous computing ; Computer networks -- Social aspects -- Forecasting

Computer networks ; Social aspects ; Forecasting ; Ubiquitous computing ; Electronic books ; Ubiquitous Computing ; Gesellschaft ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Ubiquitous computing ; Computer networks / Social aspects / Forecasting

A sociotechnical investigation of ubiquitous computing as a research enterprise and as a lived reality.

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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 2. Contextualizing Ubiquitous Computing -- Ubicomp after Weiser -- Envisioning the Future -- The Problem of the Proximate Future -- Ubicomp Is Really about Messiness -- Alternate Visions of Ubicomp -- Designing Ubicomp -- Toward a Ubicomp of the Present -- Chapter 3. Making Room for the Social and Cultural -- Fitting in Ethnography -- The Social -- The Cultural -- The Cultural in Cultural Studies -- Culture and Technology -- The Social and Cultural in Ubicomp -- Chapter 4. A Role for Ethnography -- Ethnography as Implications for Technological Design -- Charting a New Relationship between Ethnography and Ubicomp -- Broadening the Scope of Ethnographic Impact in Ubicomp -- Toward a Generative Account of Ubicomp -- Part II -- Chapter 5. What Lies Beneath -- Infrastructure? -- Space and Infrastructure -- The Practical Organization of Space -- Regulating Infrastructure -- Sociality, Spatiality, and Ubicomp -- Infrastructure and Failure -- Ubiquitous Computing Is Messy -- Chapter 6. Mobility and Urbanism -- "You Couldn't Tell Pitt Street from Palm Sunday": Defining Our Terms -- Mobility and Urbanism: Some Examples -- Alternate Approaches to Mobility -- Rethinking Mobility (and Urbanism) in Ubicomp -- From Mobility to Fluidity -- Chapter 7. Rethinking Privacy -- "Are You Menstruating?": Cultures of Privacy -- Making Sense of Privacy -- Risk, Danger, and Morality -- Secrecy, Trust, and Identity -- Beyond Privacy -- Chapter 8. Domesticity and Its Discontents -- Smart Home Deployments: Technologizing the House -- Edge Structures: Enter the Shed -- What Goes on in the Shed: The Shed as Lens -- Home Sweet Home -- After the Shed? -- Part III -- Chapter 9. Reimagining Ubiquitous Computing -- Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Engagements.