LEADER 04477oam 2200721Ka 450 001 9910779402603321 005 20190503073413.0 010 $a0-262-31348-0 010 $a1-299-44320-6 010 $a0-262-31347-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000001018248 035 $a(EBL)3339600 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000859972 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11499665 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000859972 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10896182 035 $a(PQKB)11187163 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339600 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat06504631 035 $a(IDAMS)0b00006481d40246 035 $a(IEEE)6504631 035 $a(OCoLC)834129265$z(OCoLC)960199862$z(OCoLC)961598962$z(OCoLC)962581705$z(OCoLC)988434634$z(OCoLC)991926552$z(OCoLC)1001577421$z(OCoLC)1003430736$z(OCoLC)1037925583$z(OCoLC)1038574989$z(OCoLC)1045522525$z(OCoLC)1066616352$z(OCoLC)1081278220 035 $a(OCoLC-P)834129265 035 $a(MaCbMITP)8947 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339600 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10678828 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL475570 035 $a(OCoLC)834129265 035 $a(PPN)258398949 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001018248 100 $a20130401d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmbient commons $eattention in the age of embodied information /$fMalcolm McCullough 210 $aCambridge, Massachusetts $cThe MIT Press$d[2013] 215 $a1 online resource (366 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-01880-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Street Level; I Ideas of the Ambient; 1 Ambient; 2 Information; 3 Attention; 4 Embodiment; 5 Fixity; II Toward an Environmental History of Information; 6 Tagging the Commons; 7 Frames and Facades; 8 Architectural Atmospheres; 9 Megacity Resources; 10 Environmental History; 11 Governing the Ambient; 12 Peak Distraction; Epilogue: Silent Commons; Notes; Name Index; Subject Index 330 $aThe 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. Sensors, processors, and memory are not found only in chic smart phones but also built into everyday objects. 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 persist, and that to notice them can improve other sensibilities. In Ambient Commons, Malcolm McCullough explores the workings of attention though a rediscovery of surroundings. Not all that informs has been written and sent; not all attention involves deliberate thought. The intrinsic structure of space -- the layout of a studio, for example, or a plaza -- becomes part of any mental engagement with it. 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. 606 $aArchitectural design$xPhilosophy 606 $aInformation commons 606 $aComputer-aided design 606 $aHuman-computer interaction 610 $aCOMPUTER SCIENCE/Human Computer Interaction 610 $aDIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General 610 $aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies 615 0$aArchitectural design$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aInformation commons. 615 0$aComputer-aided design. 615 0$aHuman-computer interaction. 676 $a720.1/08 700 $aMcCullough$b Malcolm$09419 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779402603321 996 $aAmbient commons$93838880 997 $aUNINA