Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity, and Culture

The ubiquitous nature of mobile and pervasive computing has begun to reshape and complicate our notions of space, time, and identity. In this collection, over thirty internationally recognized contributors reflect on ubiquitous computing’s implications for the ways in which we interact with our environments, experience time, and develop identities individually and socially. Interviews with working media artists lend further perspectives on these cultural transformations. Drawing on cultural theory, new media art studies, human-computer interaction theory, and software studies, this cutting-edge book critically unpacks the complex ubiquity-effects confronting us every day.

Ulrik Ekman is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Jay David Bolter is the Wesley Chair of New Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Lily Diaz is Professor of New Media at Aalto University, Finland.

Morten Sondergaard is Associate Professor and senior curator of Interactive Media Art at Aalborg University Copenhagen.

Maria Engberg is Assistant Professor at Malmo University, Department of Media Technology and Product Development, and an Affiliate Researcher at the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology.