Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)

There’s a bigger spatial dimension to a deaf person’s entire communication apparatus. Imagine a 360-degree circle around any set of people in a conversation when using sign: an invisible bubble of space where language is both expressed and received, and one that’s bigger and wider than for those using spoken language. This full circle of communicat

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But what Joan is calling for is this notion that the more you get close to how human beings are relating and how human beings are understanding, the harder it is to replace all of that with a fancy algorithm. And one thing about librarians is they know their local context and they understand the different constituencies that are involved. All of th... See more

The digitization of social life has also enabled us to trace the detailed movements of ideas and influences, making it difficult to think of ourselves as spontaneous, original actors in our own dramas. Again, keen observers might have always been able to trace such lines, but now we are all overtly conscious of the flows of social capital, and we h... See more

In connection with the introduction of the hierarchical systems of communal spaces – from the living room to the city’s town hall square – and the relationship of these spaces to various social groups, it is possible to define varying degrees to which different spaces are public and private. At one end of the scale is the private residence with pri

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