E-raamat: Throughout: Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing

In a series of essays, 34 influential researchers look at how the proliferation of computers and technology has and will affect culture and the arts.

Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven:technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital television, video, home computers,movies, and high-resolution advertising displays. Technology has become at once larger and smaller,mobile and ambient. In Throughout, leading writers on new media--including JayDavid Bolter, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, and Lev Manovich--take on the crucial challengesthat ubiquitous and pervasive computing pose for cultural theory and criticism. The thirty-fourecontributing researchers consider the visual sense and sensations of living with a ubicomp culture;electronic sounds from the uncanny to the unremarkable; the effects of ubicomp on communication,including mobility, transmateriality, and infinite availability; general trends and concretespecificities of interaction designs; the affectivity in ubicomp experiences, includingperformances; context awareness; and claims on the "real" in the use of such terms as"augmented reality" and "mixed reality."