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Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces + Community Wireless Networks As Situated Advocacy (Situated Technologies Pamphlets, 3)
Suspicious Images Latent Interfaces Community Wireless Networks As Situated Advocacy - Situated Technologies Pamphlets, 3 Author:Benjamin Bratton, Natalie Jeremijenko Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy — A special double issue featuring the essays — Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy, by Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey — Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces, by Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko — The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural Leag... more »ue, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics and other situated technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of space? What do architects need to know about urban computing and what do technologists need to know about cities?
The third volume in the series considers the topic of advocacy. Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf of a particular cause, idea or person, and addresses issues including self-advocacy, environmental protection, the rights of women, youth and minorities, social justice, the re-structured digital divide and political reform.
Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy asks how situated technologies have beenor might bemobilized toward changing and/or influencing social or political policies, practices, and beliefs. What new forms of advocacy are enabled by contemporary location-based or context-aware media and information systems? How might they lend tactical support to the process of managing information flows and disseminating strategic knowledge that influences individual behavior or opinion, corporate conduct or public policy and law?
Situated Technologies Pamphlets will be published in nine issues over three years and will be edited by a rotating list of leading researchers and practitioners from architecture, art, philosophy of technology, comparative media studies, performance studies, and engineering.« less