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Divining a Digital Future : Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing.
Title:
Divining a Digital Future : Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing.
Author:
Dourish, Paul.
ISBN:
9780262295345
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (259 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 2. Contextualizing Ubiquitous Computing -- Ubicomp after Weiser -- Envisioning the Future -- The Problem of the Proximate Future -- Ubicomp Is Really about Messiness -- Alternate Visions of Ubicomp -- Designing Ubicomp -- Toward a Ubicomp of the Present -- Chapter 3. Making Room for the Social and Cultural -- Fitting in Ethnography -- The Social -- The Cultural -- The Cultural in Cultural Studies -- Culture and Technology -- The Social and Cultural in Ubicomp -- Chapter 4. A Role for Ethnography -- Ethnography as Implications for Technological Design -- Charting a New Relationship between Ethnography and Ubicomp -- Broadening the Scope of Ethnographic Impact in Ubicomp -- Toward a Generative Account of Ubicomp -- Part II -- Chapter 5. What Lies Beneath -- Infrastructure? -- Space and Infrastructure -- The Practical Organization of Space -- Regulating Infrastructure -- Sociality, Spatiality, and Ubicomp -- Infrastructure and Failure -- Ubiquitous Computing Is Messy -- Chapter 6. Mobility and Urbanism -- "You Couldn't Tell Pitt Street from Palm Sunday": Defining Our Terms -- Mobility and Urbanism: Some Examples -- Alternate Approaches to Mobility -- Rethinking Mobility (and Urbanism) in Ubicomp -- From Mobility to Fluidity -- Chapter 7. Rethinking Privacy -- "Are You Menstruating?": Cultures of Privacy -- Making Sense of Privacy -- Risk, Danger, and Morality -- Secrecy, Trust, and Identity -- Beyond Privacy -- Chapter 8. Domesticity and Its Discontents -- Smart Home Deployments: Technologizing the House -- Edge Structures: Enter the Shed -- What Goes on in the Shed: The Shed as Lens -- Home Sweet Home -- After the Shed? -- Part III -- Chapter 9. Reimagining Ubiquitous Computing -- Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Engagements.

Technocultural Practices: Legibility, Literacy, and Legitimacy -- A Reimagined Ubicomp -- One Last Thought -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
A sociotechnical investigation of ubiquitous computing as a research enterprise and as a lived reality.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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