Senses and Sensors of Sleep

Disentangling ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 137-162
Author(s):  
Bjørn Nansen ◽  
Kate Mannell ◽  
Christopher O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Sleep Architecture ◽  
Internet Connectivity ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Sleep Rhythms ◽  
Technology Products ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
A Site ◽  
Architectural Spaces

This chapter analyzes sleep technology products designed to mediate and modulate patterns of sleep. Products analyzed include sleep-tracking applications and wearable devices for customizing personal phases of sleep architecture, and “smart” bedroom systems that use sensors and Internet connectivity to monitor and automate sensory environments to optimize the architectural spaces of sleep. Drawing on theories of digital disconnection, this chapter highlights how historical and theoretical notions of sleep as a site of subjective, social, and technological disconnection are reworked by contemporary media technologies. The now ubiquitous use of smartphones in bed reflects ongoing demands for digital participation and productivity. Yet such arrangements are unevenly distributed, with disconnective sleep technologies operating as a form of privilege and distinction for those who have the resources to reshape the architectures of personal sleep rhythms and spaces.

Literal Media Ecology: Crisis in the Conditions of Production

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 486-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett R. Caraway
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Matter Energy

This article outlines a socio-political theory appropriate for the study of the ecological repercussions of contemporary media technologies. More specifically, this approach provides a means of assessing the material impacts of media technologies and the representations of capitalist ecological crises. This approach builds on the work of ecological economists, ecosocialist scholars, and Marx’s writings on the conditions of production to argue that capitalism necessarily results in ecological destabilization. Taking Apple’s 2016 Environmental Responsibility Report as a case study, the article uses the theory to analyze Apple’s responses to ecological crises. The article asserts that Apple’s reactions are emblematic of the capitalist compulsion for increasing rates of productivity. However, unless the matter/energy savings achieved through higher rates of productivity surpass the overall increase in the flow of matter/energy in production, ecological crises will continue. Ultimately, capital accumulation ensures continued ecological destabilization.

Shaping Interactive Media with the Sewing Machine

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Reimann
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Media ◽  
Media Art ◽  
Electronic Textiles ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Sewing Machine ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Smart Textile ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Flexible Applications

In the context of converging media technologies, the concept of mobile media embedded in wearable material was introduced. Wearable Computing, Fashionable Technology, and Smart Textile are being developed at the intersection of media, art, design, computer science, and engineering. However, in Germany, little research has been undertaken into Smart Textile in education1. Those activities are not realized at school in the context of artistic processes in general MINT2 education in classroom settings. In order to research the interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, hard and software tools, such as Arduino LilyPad, a programmable board designed for stitching into clothing and flexible applications are scrutinized. In the project, contemporary media art projects in the field of Fashionable Technology are explored to inspire interdisciplinary technology education. The project described in this paper engages girls in technology and engineering by integrating artistic processes as well as a more playcentric approach to technology and engineering education.

scholarly journals Knowledge Experiments: Technology and the Library

2012 ◽  
pp. 101-119
Author(s):  
Paulina Mickiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Decentralized Networks ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
A Site

The 21st century library has become a central nervous system for new and emergent media technologies, a site that centralizes increasingly decentralized networks and systems, and a localizable place in which new and emergent media technologies have not only found a home, an embodied place where they can be contained, but also a broader site in which the encounter between citizens, public knowledge and culture is staged. This article seeks to explore the “technologization” of the library. More specifically, it examines how this process of “technologization” has transformed the ways we use and understand the library as a public space and what this means for its future. The idea of the library as an important medium in itself has been overlooked in the broader context of communication and media studies.

scholarly journals Media Innovations, User Innovations, Societal Innovations

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Bruns
Keyword(s):  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Technology Innovations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Practices

As the Journal of Media Innovations comes into existence, this article reflects on the first and most obvious question: just what do we mean by “media innovations”? Drawing on the examples of a range of recent innovations in media technologies and practices, initiated by a variety of media audiences, users, professionals, and providers, it explores the interplay between the different drivers of innovation and the effects of such innovation on the complex frameworks of contemporary society and the media ecology which supports it. In doing so, this article makes a number of key observations: first, it notes that media innovation is an innovation in media practices at least as much as in media technologies, and that changes to the practices of media both reflect and promote societal changes as well – media innovations are never just media technology innovations. Second, it shows that the continuing mediatisation of society, and the shift towards a more widespread participation of ordinary users as active content creators and media innovators, make it all the more important to investigate in detail these interlinked, incremental, everyday processes of media and societal change – media innovations are almost always also user innovations. Finally, it suggests that a full understanding of these processes as they unfold across diverse interleaved media spaces and complex societal structures necessarily requires a holistic perspective on media innovations, which considers the contemporary media ecology as a crucial constitutive element of societal structures and seeks to trace the repercussions of innovations across both media and society – media innovations are inextricably interlinked with societal innovations (even if, at times, they may not be considered to be improvements to the status quo).

scholarly journals Artificial Landscape: in search of publicness through urban spectacle in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Leung ◽  
Andy Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Dynamic Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
A Site

Screen technologies increasingly permeate the experience of public space in Hong Kong. Large media walls have occupied the façades of many buildings, rendering a cityscape with dynamic information visible as a new urban skin. This article is a case study on Artificial Landscape, a site-specific media art project located on Asia Pacific’s largest LED outdoor screen. The case sets an example of how a public screen can serve as a mediating agent. It provides an opportunity for artists to provoke absent ideas in the public space and explore subversive potential, including critical reflection on issues surrounding surveillance, consumerism and rapid urban growth. The case also exemplifies how a public screen can mediate the public to experience an alternative context through artistic intervention, where negotiations of perceptions and subjectivities are made possible. This article provides insights into a public screen’s mode of spectatorship, quality of public space and curatorial strategies in an urban context. This is achieved by illustrating how various artworks extend the notion of publicness and remediate the mutually constitutive relationship among the built environment, media technologies, artists, public and everyday encounters.

Shaping Interactive Media with the Sewing Machine

2012 ◽  
pp. 1342-1351
Author(s):  
Daniela Reimann
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Media ◽  
Media Art ◽  
Electronic Textiles ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Technology And Engineering Education ◽  
Smart Textile ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Flexible Applications

In the context of converging media technologies, the concept of mobile media embedded in wearable material was introduced. Wearable Computing, Fashionable Technology, and Smart Textile are being developed at the intersection of media, art, design, computer science, and engineering. However, in Germany, little research has been undertaken into Smart Textile in education1. Those activities are not realized at school in the context of artistic processes in general MINT2 education in classroom settings. In order to research the interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, hard and software tools, such as Arduino LilyPad, a programmable board designed for stitching into clothing and flexible applications are scrutinized. In the project, contemporary media art projects in the field of Fashionable Technology are explored to inspire interdisciplinary technology education. The project described in this paper engages girls in technology and engineering by integrating artistic processes as well as a more playcentric approach to technology and engineering education.

Security policies and trust in ubiquitous computing

2008 ◽  
Vol 366 (1881) ◽  
pp. 3769-3780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anupam Joshi ◽  
Tim Finin ◽  
Lalana Kagal ◽  
Jim Parker ◽  
Anand Patwardhan
Keyword(s):  
Short Range ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Peer Interactions ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Internet Connectivity ◽  
Hoc Networks ◽  
Information Interchange

Ubiquitous environments comprise resource-constrained mobile and wearable devices and computational elements embedded in everyday artefacts. These are connected to each other using both infrastructure-based as well as short-range ad hoc networks. Limited Internet connectivity limits the use of conventional security mechanisms such as public key infrastructures and other forms of server-centric authentication. Under these circumstances, peer-to-peer interactions are well suited for not just information interchange, but also managing security and privacy. However, practical solutions for protecting mobile devices, preserving privacy, evaluating trust and determining the reliability and accuracy of peer-provided data in such interactions are still in their infancy. Our research is directed towards providing stronger assurances of the reliability and trustworthiness of information and services, and the use of declarative policy-driven approaches to handle the open and dynamic nature of such systems. This paper provides an overview of some of the challenges and issues, and points out directions for progress.

Recent Trends in Wearable Device Technology for Health State Monitoring

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-147
Author(s):  
E. D. Kanmani Ruby ◽  
P. Janani ◽  
V. Mahalakshmi ◽  
B. Sathyasri ◽  
S. Vishnu Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure Monitoring ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Health State ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
State Monitoring ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Technology Products

The latest innovative technology products in the market are paving the way for a new growth in the medical field over medical wearable devices. Globally, the medical market is said to be segmented on the basis of global medical wearable report by its type, application level, regional level, and country level. In this medical advisory, these devices are classified as diagnostic, therapeutic, and respiratory. The regions covered include Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the rest of the world. These wearable devices are technically embedded with electronic devices which the users are able to adhere to their body parts. The main function of these wearable devices is said to be collecting users' personal health data (e.g., such devices include measurement on fitness of body, heartbeat measurement, ECG measurement, blood pressure monitoring, etc.).

The digital inclusion role of rural libraries: social inequalities through space and place

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Strover ◽  
Brian Whitacre ◽  
Colin Rhinesmith ◽  
Alexis Schrubbe
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Internet Connectivity ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Internet Presence ◽  
A Site ◽  
Older Populations

A great deal of scholarship on broadband deployment and federal policies has positioned rural America through a deficit framework: rural parts of the country have older populations (and therefore not tech savvy), are poor (and therefore justifiably ignored by the market), too remote (therefore outside of legitimate profit-making enterprise), and losing population (and therefore significance). This research examines rural Internet connectivity through the lens of local libraries lending hotspots for Internet connectivity. Qualitative data gathered in 24 rural communities in Kansas and Maine undercut simplistic notions regarding how communication systems operate in environments ignored by normative market operations. Financial precarity and pressures from social and economic institutions compel rurally based individuals and families to assemble piecemeal Internet presence and connectivity. The public library plays a crucial role in providing Internet resources and stands out in the rural environment as a site that straddles public trust and local.

scholarly journals Online kinship. Social media as a site for challenging notions of gender and family.

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (61) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rikke Andreassen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
And Gender ◽  
A Site

The article shows how the technology of social media sites facilitates new kinds of kinship. It ana-lyzes how ‘donor families’ – i.e., families in which the children are conceived via sperm and/or egg donations – negotiate kinship, family formations and gender when connecting with each other online. Family formation and parenting are closely connected with gender and gender norms, and online donor families, therefore, offer an opportunity for understanding gender and gender for-mations in contemporary times and contemporary media. By analyzing commentary threads of a Facebook group connecting donor families as well as interviews with users of this Facebook group, the article shows how the affordances of social media, especially the Facebook application for smart phones, are central to the formation and maintenance of new kinship relations. Furthermore, the article illustrates how conventional practices regarding gender and families on one hand are chal-lenged by the creation of new types of families, while simultaneously being maintained in discus-sions about choice of donor. Here, a longing for traditional family values seems to run underneath the discussion between members of these new families.

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