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Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

New Books in Communications

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The Battle of the Visual Clutter for Mass Advertising

In the early 20th century, there was a famous sociologist named Georg Simmel who studied how citizens of newly urbanizing industrial Berlin became dulled and tuned out from the world around them. This is different. Let's talk about saturation. One of the advances in ambient information just make my life that much richer. It's a net positive for me no matter how it shakes out. But there's also a question about what about somebody who is walking around town who hasn't noticed anything difference. I'd like to consider that first because that's most people.

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