Actionable media : digital communication beyond the desktop / John Tinnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tinnell, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Technological innovations.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

xx, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

In 1991, Mark Weiser and his team at Xerox PARC declared that they were reinventing computers for the twenty-first century. The computer would become integrated into everyday life; it would shift to the background rather than being itself an object of focus. The resulting rise of ubiquitous computing-smartphones, smart glasses, smart cities- has since thoroughly colonized our digital landscape. In Actionable Media, John Tinnell contends that there is an unsung rhetorical dimension to Weiser's legacy, which stretches far beyond recent iProducts. Taking up Weiser's motto, "Start from the arts and humanities," Tinnell develops a theoretical framework for understanding nascent initiatives-the Internet of things, wearable interfaces, augmented reality-interms of their intellectual history, their relationship to earlier communication technologies, and their potential to become vibrant platforms for public culture and critical media production. Actionable Media challenges familiar claims about the combination of physical and digital spaces, beckoning contemporary media studies toward an alternative substrate of historical precursors, emerging forms, design philosophies, and rhetorical principles. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Invention of Ubiquitous Computing 24

2 Interpreting Post-Desktop Practices 57

3 Futures of Computing via Histories of Writing 85

4 A Theory of Two Archives, from Cuneiform to Augmented Reality 108

5 Forms of Actionable Media 137

6 Creating Actionable Media 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.

ISBN:

9780190678081

0190678089

9780190678074

0190678070

OCLC:

988580548