Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262528398 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Malcolm McCullough is Professor of Architecture at Taubman College, the University of Michigan. He is the author of Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand and Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing, both published by the MIT Press.
(Times Higher Education)Ambient Commons sizzles with provocative ideas: attention theft, right to undisrupted attention, peak distraction. It's a call for responsible urbanism. (User Experience Magazine) . 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. It is also, unlike most texts that pivot around technology, beaut
Requires careful reading, but includes many easily understood gems As information becomes plentiful, attention becomes scarce. That truism from Herbert Simon, a pioneer of cognitive science, has many implications for us as humans in “the information age.” Advertisers also vie for our attention—and the competition is fierce. Those who want your attention are. Enlightening. As a graduate in ICT and looking to S. Olavi Enlightening. As a graduate in ICT and looking to enter interaction design, McCullough's work opened my eyes to questions that anyone who is studying place-centric design & place specific computing should consider.. "Put your attention to a better book" according to Amazon Customer. A short sighted understanding of the role technology plays in our lives. The author seems out-of-touch and curmudgeonly as he attempts to embody how "kids these days" don't look at the stars like they used to. However, the framework of ambient commons seems helpful if you can get beyond the author's own self-
So it is worth remembering that underneath all these augmentations and data flows, fixed forms persist, and that to notice them can improve other sensibilities. The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. 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.. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. He explores how the fixed forms of architecture and the city play a cognitive role in the flow of ambient information. You might not be able to tune this world out. In Ambient Commons, Malcolm McCullough explores the workings of attention through a rediscovery of surroundings.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 inhabit