"A big contemporary issue/ example is ubiquitous computing (pervasive
computing, ambient intelligence): a
post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information
processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities."
Technology has become multi-platformed and cross platformed, for example digitalising magazines and newspapers online has reduced the popularity of the traditional hard copies. This advancement means that everything is networked and organised online in a manner that is both easy and difficult to access.
The trouble with the increased size of these online networks is navigation when publishing meets ubiquity. The data combines and flows everywhere, geographies are broken down and instantaneous messages are dissolved to your computers or internet capable devices e.g. iPad, iPhone and iPod. You the consumer of information is bombarded with messages that may not have any relevance to you. So how can you screen the unwanted flow of words and images? Take the iPhone for example, capable of internet access and apps and a high-quality camera, this device can substitute your computer when we are mobile. Constant upgrades in software and notifications are viewed daily and increased time is spend looking at the screen, it in fact is a multi-platformed device. It is your personal, intimate television, camera and monitor. The iPhone has transformed digital publishing similar to other Apple products, with the ability to post photos, videos, statues and comments onto social media networks - cross platformed. It is metadata that facilitates these new modes of communication from device to device, from computer to device and so on. The identified public in these scenarios extends to both human and non-human objects and processes, which are constantly changing and evolving - our media life is fuelled by publishing. New relationships are formed between content and experience, enabling the ongoing assemblage of new publics, "These publics become a kind of shifting data/metadata that represents
an imagined community with nevertheless real effects."
McKenzie brings to the forefront the 'hacker,' in the online network "Hackers create the possibility of new things entering the world," the crakes within an online network enable hackers to re-interpret and re-use personal information. "We do not own what we produce - it owns us," this encapsulates that the information published online looses 'ownership' and that can be reinvented for good and bad. The unknown publics create different and unrelated means of your information. "The greatest hacks of our time may turn out to be forms of organising free collective expression, so that from this time on, abstraction serves the people, rather than the people serving the ruling class." McKenzie highlights that the new forms of our collective expression are as a result of publishing, if we didn't publish the ability to hack wouldn't be at the forefront of worry for online uses - it is to our own detriment.
McKenzie Work 'A Hacker Manifesto- Abstraction' pg 102 - 105
Key WORD: ubiquity
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