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Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (464 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317704577
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.48/34
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: Complex Ubiquity-Effects -- PART I INDIVIDUATING -- Individuations -- Cultural Theory -- Topology of Sensibility -- Weather Patterns, or How Minor Gestures Entertain the Environment -- Peekaboo, I See You! About Observation, Surveillance, and Human Agency in the Age of Ubicomp -- The Implied Producer and the Citizen of the Culture of Ubiquitous Information: Investigating Emergent Typologies of Critical Awareness -- Media Art -- Complexity and Reduction-Interview with David Rokeby -- Interface, Bodies, and Process-Interview with Teri Rueb -- Interaction Design -- The Elephants in the (Server) Room: Sustainability and Surveillance in the Era of Big Data -- Towards Transdisciplinary Design of Ubiquitous Computing Systems Supporting End-User Development -- Ambient Literature: Writing Probability -- Software Studies -- Ubiquitous Memory: I Do Not Remember, We Do Not Forget -- PART II SITUATING -- Situating: Contextuality and Context-Awareness -- Cultural Theory -- Thinking in Networks: Artistic-architectural Responses to Ubiquitous Information -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Smart City: Body, Complexity, and Urban Life -- Distraction Reconsidered: On the Cultural Stakes of the Ambient -- The Information Environment -- Media Always and Everywhere: A Cosmic Approach -- Media Art -- From Simple Rules to Complex Performances-Interview with Blast Theory's Matt Adams -- Complex Historicity: An Interview with Electroland Principal Cameron McNall -- Interview with Mogens Jacobsen -- Ubiquitous-ALife in TechnoSphere 2.0: The Design, Individuation, and Entanglement of Ubicomp Apps in Urban South East Asia -- Interaction Design -- Disability, Locative Media, and Complex Ubiquity -- Indexical Visualization-the Data-less Information Display.
PART III EVENTUALIZING -- Events -- Cultural Theory -- (In)visibility, (Un)awareness, and a New Way of Seeing through Complex Cinema -- Cutting and Folding the Borgesian Map: Film as Complex Temporal Object in the Industrialization of Memory -- Media Art -- Hiding in Plain Sight-Interview with Hasan Elahi -- Interaction Design -- Interaction as Performance: Performative Strategies in Designing Interactive Experiences -- The Collective Novice: A Designer's Reflections on Emergent Complexity in Collaborative Media -- Software Studies -- Information Events, Big Data, and the Flash Crash -- Index -- Plates.
Summary: The ubiquitous nature of mobile and pervasive computing has begun to reshape and complicate our notions of space, time, and identity. In this collection, over thirty internationally recognized contributors reflect on ubiquitous computing's implications for the ways in which we interact with our environments, experience time, and develop identities individually and socially. Interviews with working media artists lend further perspectives on these cultural transformations. Drawing on cultural theory, new media art studies, human-computer interaction theory, and software studies, this cutting-edge book critically unpacks the complex ubiquity-effects confronting us every day. The companion website can be found here: http://ubiquity.dk.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: Complex Ubiquity-Effects -- PART I INDIVIDUATING -- Individuations -- Cultural Theory -- Topology of Sensibility -- Weather Patterns, or How Minor Gestures Entertain the Environment -- Peekaboo, I See You! About Observation, Surveillance, and Human Agency in the Age of Ubicomp -- The Implied Producer and the Citizen of the Culture of Ubiquitous Information: Investigating Emergent Typologies of Critical Awareness -- Media Art -- Complexity and Reduction-Interview with David Rokeby -- Interface, Bodies, and Process-Interview with Teri Rueb -- Interaction Design -- The Elephants in the (Server) Room: Sustainability and Surveillance in the Era of Big Data -- Towards Transdisciplinary Design of Ubiquitous Computing Systems Supporting End-User Development -- Ambient Literature: Writing Probability -- Software Studies -- Ubiquitous Memory: I Do Not Remember, We Do Not Forget -- PART II SITUATING -- Situating: Contextuality and Context-Awareness -- Cultural Theory -- Thinking in Networks: Artistic-architectural Responses to Ubiquitous Information -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Smart City: Body, Complexity, and Urban Life -- Distraction Reconsidered: On the Cultural Stakes of the Ambient -- The Information Environment -- Media Always and Everywhere: A Cosmic Approach -- Media Art -- From Simple Rules to Complex Performances-Interview with Blast Theory's Matt Adams -- Complex Historicity: An Interview with Electroland Principal Cameron McNall -- Interview with Mogens Jacobsen -- Ubiquitous-ALife in TechnoSphere 2.0: The Design, Individuation, and Entanglement of Ubicomp Apps in Urban South East Asia -- Interaction Design -- Disability, Locative Media, and Complex Ubiquity -- Indexical Visualization-the Data-less Information Display.

PART III EVENTUALIZING -- Events -- Cultural Theory -- (In)visibility, (Un)awareness, and a New Way of Seeing through Complex Cinema -- Cutting and Folding the Borgesian Map: Film as Complex Temporal Object in the Industrialization of Memory -- Media Art -- Hiding in Plain Sight-Interview with Hasan Elahi -- Interaction Design -- Interaction as Performance: Performative Strategies in Designing Interactive Experiences -- The Collective Novice: A Designer's Reflections on Emergent Complexity in Collaborative Media -- Software Studies -- Information Events, Big Data, and the Flash Crash -- Index -- Plates.

The ubiquitous nature of mobile and pervasive computing has begun to reshape and complicate our notions of space, time, and identity. In this collection, over thirty internationally recognized contributors reflect on ubiquitous computing's implications for the ways in which we interact with our environments, experience time, and develop identities individually and socially. Interviews with working media artists lend further perspectives on these cultural transformations. Drawing on cultural theory, new media art studies, human-computer interaction theory, and software studies, this cutting-edge book critically unpacks the complex ubiquity-effects confronting us every day. The companion website can be found here: http://ubiquity.dk.

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