Ambient Commons
Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
$52.41
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
21 August 2015
Summary
On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able to tune this world out. So it is worth remembering that underneath all these augmentations and da…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262528399 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262528398 |
| Author: | Malcolm McCullough |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 394g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 16mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Ambient Commons is quiet, patient and profound; through 12 pithy chapters, it asks us to ponder information contexts.
—Times Higher EducationAmbient Commons sizzles with provocative ideas: attention theft, right to undisrupted attention, peak distraction. It’s a call for responsible urbanism…. Given the recent hype about the rise of the ‘smart city’—courtesy of large technology companies pitching solutions to innovaton-hungry mayors—McCullough’s advocacy of technologically mediated but humane urbanism is timely.
—Evgeny Morozov, The New YorkerThe book is both a delight to read and a call to action in two ways. Civilized human beings need to disengage from their glowing rectangles and appreciate the world around us, and design professionals need to pay attention to the information content of our environment.
—User Experience MagazineAbout The Author
Malcolm McCullough
Malcolm McCullough is Professor of Architecture at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Abstracting Craft- The Practiced Digital Hand, Digital Ground- Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing, and Ambient Commons- Attention in the Age of Embodied Information, all published by the MIT Press.
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