Making Room for the Social and Cultural
Making Room for the Social and Cultural
This chapter focuses on the social and cultural aspects of ubicomp. It explores the tensions between two competing notions of culture—one rooted in contemporary ethnographic and critical theory and the other in the more instrumentalist practices of ubicomp. Drawing on examples from the anthropological canon and the authors’ recent work, the chapter suggests that the adoption of a more generative notion of culture within ubicomp has profound and destablizing consequences, which are discussed at length throughout the book.
Keywords: ubiquitous computing, ubicomp, ethnography, instrumentalist practice
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