{"id":567,"date":"2011-07-27T15:10:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/27\/book-review-on-the-mobile-city-blog-paul-dourish-genevieve-bell-%e2%80%93-divining-a-digital-future-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-07-27T16:26:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:26:27","slug":"book-review-on-the-mobile-city-blog-paul-dourish-genevieve-bell-%e2%80%93-divining-a-digital-future-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/27\/book-review-on-the-mobile-city-blog-paul-dourish-genevieve-bell-%e2%80%93-divining-a-digital-future-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review on The Mobile City blog: Paul Dourish &#038; Genevieve Bell \u2013 Divining a digital future (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a review of this recent book on The Mobile City website:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/D_B-divining_digital_future.jpg\" alt=\"D_B-divining_digital_future.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Divining a Digital Future<\/em> (2011), computer scientist Paul Dourish (Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine) and cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell (Intel Interaction and Experience Research Lab) again team up in an attempt to marry ethnography with ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) research. The book heavily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dourish.com\/publications\/2005\/interactions-information.pdf\">builds<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dourish.com\/publications\/2004\/urban.pdf\">some<\/a> of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dourish.com\/publications\/2009\/scifi-puc-draft.pdf\">previous<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dourish.com\/publications\/2006\/BellDourish-BackToTheShed-PUC.pdf\">collaborative<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dourish.com\/publications\/2007\/BellDourish-YesterdaysTomorrows-PUC.pdf\">work<\/a>. Dourish &amp; Bell propose to develop \u201ca \u2018ubiquitous computing of the present\u2019 that takes the messiness of everyday life as a central theme\u201d (4). Their scope embraces the far ends of <em>mythology<\/em>, the cultural ideal-narratives that shape ubicomp\u2019s research agenda, and <em>messiness<\/em>, the complex and contested realities of how people actually use and interpret everyday technologies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themobilecity.nl\/2011\/07\/27\/review-paul-dourish-genevieve-bell-divining-a-digital-future\/\">Continue reading &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a review of this recent book on The Mobile City website: In Divining a Digital Future (2011), computer scientist Paul Dourish (Professor of [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/27\/book-review-on-the-mobile-city-blog-paul-dourish-genevieve-bell-%e2%80%93-divining-a-digital-future-2011\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,72,25,117],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-locative-media","tag-review","tag-the-mobile-city","tag-ubicomp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-99","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}