Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
by Malcolm McCullough
- Author(s)
- Malcolm McCullough
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 2013
- Scope
- 348 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780262018807
The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats.McCullough describes what he calls the Ambient: an increasing tendency to perceive information superabundance whole, where individual signals matter less and at least some mediation assumes inhabitable form. He explores how the fixed forms of architecture and the city play a cognitive role in the flow of ambient information. As a persistently inhabited world, can the Ambient be understood as a shared cultural resource, to be socially curated, voluntarily limited, and self-governed as if a commons? Ambient Commons invites you to look past current obsessions with smart phones to rethink attention itself, to care for more situated, often inescapable forms of information.
- Keywords
- new media
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 3: Digitale en mobiele media in de stad
- Extra themes
- Walk / stroll / explore / hang out
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
