Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture

by Ulrik Ekman (editor), Jay David Bolter (Editor), Lily Diaz (Editor)

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.The companion website can be found //ubiquity.dk

407 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 10, 2015

About the author

Ulrik Ekman is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His main research interests are in the fields of cybernetics and ICT, the network society, new media art, critical design and aesthetics, as well as recent cultural theory.