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