Throughout ─ Art and Culture Emerging With Ubiquitous Computing

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."