Bøger af Paul Dourish

An argument that the material arrangements of information—how it is represented and interpreted—matter significantly for our experience of information and information systems.Virtual entities that populate our digital experience, like e-books, virtual worlds, and online stores, are backed by the large-scale physical infrastructures of server farms, fiber optic cables, power plants, and microwave links. But another domain of material constraints also shapes digital living: the digital representations sketched on whiteboards, encoded into software, stored in databases, loaded into computer memory, and transmitted on networks. These digital representations encode aspects of our everyday world and make them available for digital processing. The limits and capacities of those representations carry significant consequences for digital society.In The Stuff of Bits, Paul Dourish examines the specific materialities that certain digital objects exhibit. He presents four case studies: emulation, the creation of a “virtual” computer inside another; digital spreadsheets and their role in organizational practice; relational databases and the issue of “the databaseable”; and the evolution of digital networking and the representational entailments of network protocols. These case studies demonstrate how a materialist account can offer an entry point to broader concerns—questions of power, policy, and polity in the realm of the digital.

Det digitale nærvær handler om Computer-medieret kommunikation (CMC - via intranet, internet, "allesteds-nærværende computing" mm. ), der er grundlaget for det informations- og videnssamfund, der for alvor begynder at tage form i disse år, som har forandret den måde, vi udsender og søger information, kommunikerer med hinanden både privat og i organisationer, samarbejder, underviser og tilegner os viden. Denne bog går tæt på tre udvalgte områder inden for den computer-medierede kommunikation:Videndeling i formelle og uformelle organisationer Netbaseret samarbejde og læring Design af produkter til computermedieret kommunikation. Bogen består af tretten artikler skrevet specielt til denne udgivelse af danske og udenlandske forskere. De giver et billede af en række helt aktuelle problemfelter og forskningsområder inden for CMC. Bogen henvender sig især til studerende som arbejder med it, medier og kommunikation, men den er relevant for alle, som interesserer sig for nye medier.