The Stuff of Bits
An Essay on the Materialities of Information
$70.86
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2022
Summary
An argument that the material arrangements of information—how it is represented and interpreted—matter significantly for our experience of information and information systems.
Virtual entities that populate our digital experience, like e-books, virtual worlds, and online stores, are backed by the large-scale physical infrastructures of server farms, fiber optic cables, power plants, and microwave links. But another domain of material constraints also shapes digital living—the digital …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262546522 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262546523 |
| Author: | Paul Dourish |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Paul Dourish
Paul Dourish is Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction and coauthor of Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing, both published by the MIT Press.
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