Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Phil Turner, Susan Turner, Elisabeth Davenport, Phil Turner, Susan Turner, Elisabeth Davenport

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The emerging study of technology in space has been shaping human interaction with physical, social, and technological worlds. Drawing upon a wide range of information technology disciplines, this field is now grabbing the attention of many, including computer scientists, anthropologists, and psychologists craving for more on this intriguing new field.

Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives offers stimulating research currently bridging the areas of space, spatiality, and technology. A must-read for researchers and scholars working at the intersection of physical, social, and technological space, this book provides critical research from leading experts in the space technology domain an essential resource for any academic collection.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 4
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Paths and Patches:
Patterns of Geognosy and Gnosis......Page 26
Let’s Meander Through
a Measured Space......Page 42
Navigating a Speckled World:
Interacting with Wireless Sensor
Networks......Page 51
Contested Terrain:
Place, Work, and Organizational
Identities......Page 66
Technosocial Space:
Connecting People and Places......Page 79
Reconfiguring the Rose:
An Exploration of the Use of Virtual
Space by Artists Collaboratively
Creating Digital Stained Glass......Page 95
Context, Boundedness, and
Structure:
The Apprehension of Place in the
Development of Information
Environments......Page 115
Voice and Space:
Agency of the Acousmêtre in
Spatial Design......Page 127
Listening, Corporeality, Place
and Presence......Page 138
Representing Space:
The Pictorial Imperative......Page 153
The Spatial Development of
the Visual-Narrative from
Prehistoric Cave Paintings to
Computer Games......Page 166
The Interactive Spectacle and
the Digital Situationist......Page 180
Spatial Language in Computer
Mediated Communication......Page 193
Space, Place, and Memory
Prosthetics......Page 208
Materializing Communication
Concepts:
Linearity and Surface in Linguistics
and Information Theory......Page 221
On Information, Meaning, Space
and Geometry......Page 239
Compilation of References......Page 251
About the Contributors......Page 272
Index......Page 277

✦ Subjects

Транспорт;Аэрокосмическая техника;