Since the late 1980s
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mid-1990s, strong criticism emerged and researchers debated the pros and cons
of developing such “dangerous” technologies.
However, technological limitations
at the time still allowed researchers to claim these social concerns were
theoretical rather than actual, and the matter faded from public consciousness
again until the early 2000s.
By the turn of the 21
st
century, mobile phone penetration was globally on the rise,
and a vision of ubiquitous information and communication technologies no
longer seemed a fantasy.
Technologies that had not existed even five years earlier
were becoming commonplace and, firmly embedded within broader consumer
desires for convenience and comfort, the pervasive computing vision began to roll
out with unprecedented vigour.
Industries and governments began heralding the
coming “Internet of Things,” where the global supply chain would be managed in
ways that could create “smart objects” or a web-presence for consumer goods.
Again popular media tended to focus on the surveillance possibilities, and
ubiquitous or pervasive computing discourse began to take on a distinctly
dystopian tone.
However, at the same time, new research agendas in urban
computing and locative media emerged to present a strongly utopian countervision.From ‘A Brief
History of Urban Computing & Locative Media’ by Anne Galloway.
PhD Dissertation.
Sociology & Anthropology.
Carleton University.
2008.
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My thesis focusses on these emergent research agendas in an attempt to better
understand how, contrary to the discursive construction of pervasive computing
as ‘everywhere,’ research projects in locative media and urban computing actually
locate these technologies ‘somewhere.’ I draw on actor-network theory and
sociological approaches to expectations and affect as a means to understand and
account for the complexity of these processes.
By focussing on the roles of
imagination and desire in shaping technological change, I examine how urban.
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