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Author Dourish, Paul.

Title Divining a digital future : mess and mythology in ubiquitous computing / Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 248 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-243) and index.
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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Ubiquitous computing.
Ubiquitous computing.
Computer networks -- Social aspects -- Forecasting.
Computer networks -- Social aspects.
Forecasting.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Bell, Genevieve.
Other Form: Print version: Dourish, Paul. Divining a digital future. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011 9780262015554 (DLC) 2010038387 (OCoLC)667210565
ISBN 9780262295345 (electronic book)
0262295342 (electronic book)
9780262296106 (electronic book)
0262296101 (electronic book)
9780262015554
0262015552
1283119021
9781283119023