Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

by Malcolm McCullough

Book Overview

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 data flows, fixed forms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018802
• ISBN13: 9780262018807
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.0"