{"product_id":"ambient-commons-isbn-9780262528399","title":"Ambient Commons","description":"\u003cb\u003eOn rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. 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 \u003ci\u003eAmbient Commons\u003c\/i\u003e, Malcolm McCullough explores the workings of attention through a rediscovery of surroundings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcCullough 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? \u003ci\u003eAmbient Commons\u003c\/i\u003e invites you to look past current obsessions with smart phones to rethink attention itself, to care for more situated, often inescapable forms of information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmbient Commons\u003c\/i\u003e is quiet, patient and profound; through 12 pithy chapters, it asks us to ponder information contexts.—\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmbient Commons \u003c\/i\u003esizzles with provocative ideas: attention theft, right to undisrupted attention, peak distraction. It's a call for responsible urbanism.... 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.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003cb\u003eEvgeny Morozov\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is both a delight to read and a call to action in two ways. Civilized human beings need to disengage from their glowing rectangles and appreciate the world around us, and design professionals need to pay attention to the information content of our environment.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eUser Experience Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e—Malcolm McCullough is Professor of Architecture at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAbstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDigital Ground: Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAmbient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by the MIT Press.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300858843365,"sku":"NP9780262528399","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262528399.jpg?v=1767721394","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/ambient-commons-isbn-9780262528399","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}