The tuning of place : sociable spaces and pervasive digital media / Richard Coyne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coyne, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ubiquitous computing.

Mobile computing.

Online social networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 330 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Review: "How do pervasive digital devices - smartphones, iPods, GPS navigation systems, and cameras, among others - influence the way we use spaces? In The Tuning of Place, Richard Coyne argues that these ubiquitous devices and the networks that support them become the means of making incremental adjustments within spaces - of tuning place. Pervasive media help us formulate a sense of place, writes Coyne, through their capacity to introduce small changes, in the same way that tuning a musical instrument invokes the subtle process of recalibration. Places are inhabited spaces, populated by people, their concerns, memories, stories, conversations, encounters, and artifacts. The tuning of place - whereby people use their devices in their interactions with one another - is also a tuning of social relations." "The range of ubiquity is vast - from the familiar phones and handheld devices through RFID tags, smart badges, dynamic signage, microprocessors in cars and kitchen appliances, wearable computing, and prosthetics, to devices still in development. Rather than catalog achievements and predictions, Coyne offers a theoretical framework for discussing pervasive media that can inform developers, designers, and users as they contemplate interventions into the environment. Processes of tuning can lead to consideration of themes highly relevant to pervasive computing: intervention, calibration, wedges, habits, rhythm, tags, taps, tactics, thresholds, aggregation, noise, and interference."--Jacket.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262265928

0262265923

9780262266284

0262266288

9780262013918

0262013916

OCLC:

646069121

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.