The ubiquitous nature of mobile and pervasive computing has begun to reshape and complicate our notions of space, time, and identity. In this collection, over thirty internationally recognized contributors reflect on ubiquitous computing's implications for the ways in which we interact with our environments, experience time, and develop identities individually and socially. Interviews with working media artists lend further perspectives on these cultural transformations.

Drawing on cultural theory, new media art studies, human-computer interaction theory, and software studies, this cutting-edge book critically unpacks the complex ubiquity-effects confronting us every day.

Visit the book's companion website at: http://ubiquity.dk

About the Author

Ulrik Ekman is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jay David Bolter is the Wesley Chair of New Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Lily Diaz is Professor of New Media, Visualization and Cultural Heritage at Aalto University, Finland.

Morten Sondergaard is Associate Professor and Senior Curator of Interactive Media Art at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.

Maria Engberg is Assistant Professor at Malmoe University, Department Computer Science and Media Technology, and an Affiliate Researcher at the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Reviews

"This massively important volume presents critical and inspiring insights into how computers and media are not merely discrete things but pervade and invade the world from the molecular to the planetary. Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture is transdisciplinary in the true sense of the word: not merely trying to connect different disciplines and methods, but carving out a research field in between existing ones; an investigation into the computational environments that govern how we live and sense. This is the key handbook for an emerging field." - Professor Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton; author of Insect Media and What is Media Archaeology?

Book Information
ISBN 9781138296329
Author Ulrik Ekman
Format Paperback
Page Count 464
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 975g