Divining a digital future : mess and mythology in ubiquitous computing /

Dourish, Paul.

Divining a digital future : mess and mythology in ubiquitous computing / Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011. - x, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-243) and index.

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.

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

9780262015554 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262015552 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2010038387


Ubiquitous computing.
Computer networks--Social aspects--Forecasting.

QA76.5915 / D739 2011

303.48/33