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Divining a digital future : mess and mythology in ubiquitous computing / Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dourish, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ubiquitous computing.
- Computer networks--Social aspects--Forecasting.
- Computer networks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-11902-1
- 9786613119025
- 0-262-29534-2
- OCLC:
- 727944959
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