Media Space 20 + Years of Mediated Life

✍ Scribed by Steve Harrison (auth.), Steve Harrison (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 458
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From holes in space and telepresence to mobile technologies and online communities, media spaces crystallize socially-aware networked media-rich computing. This book provides perspectives on this fast-moving field.

Loosely divided into three different, but interconnected, approaches to media space research, each section implies a different exploration of the connectivity that constitutes a media space: social, spatial, and communications.

Each part opens with an introduction that lays out how readers can best approach the section, and provides a basic guide to the theory and research literature, technological developments and other notable events to help contextualize the book. The ‘social ‘ approach uses the rhetoric and methods familiar to a CSCW audience, but moves into actual situations that involve close working bonds, broken trust, shared joy, community building, interpersonal tension, anxiety and so forth. The section on ‘spatial’ approaches guides the reader through an intellectual landscape of spatiality, the ‘communications’ part is a field guide to sense-making in the as-lived mediated condition, demonstrating that media space sense-making combines an understanding of in-the-moment alongside sense made of existence in the world and reflecting upon it.

Students, researchers and practitioners of CSCW, information and communications technology (ICT), and human-computer interaction will find the book an invaluable reference to the past and an inspiration for the future. Also, historians of science and technology will be interested in the way media space history tracks the growth of CSCW and the expansion of HCI to include video and other communications technology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
An Introduction to Media Space....Pages 1-8
A Brief History of Media Space Research and Mediated Life....Pages 9-16
Section 1: The Social Space....Pages 17-26
Creating Assemblies in Media Space: Recent Developments in Enhancing Access to Workspaces....Pages 27-55
From Media Spaces to Emplaced Media: Digital Poster Boards and Community Connectedness....Pages 57-73
Social Catalysts for Creating Sociable Media Spaces....Pages 75-95
Privacy Factors in Video-Based Media Spaces....Pages 97-122
Affect and Dyads: Conflict Across Different Technological Media....Pages 123-144
The Watcher and the Watched: Social Judgments about Privacy in a Public Place....Pages 145-176
(Dis)connecting Cultures: The Diary of a Short Lived Media Space....Pages 177-197
Section 2: The Space of Media Space....Pages 199-204
Constructing Space....Pages 205-215
Mediaspace – Meaningspace – Meetingspace....Pages 217-231
Media Space, After 20 Years....Pages 233-259
From Analog to Digital, from the Office to the Living Room: Why I Happily Worked in a Media Space but Don't Live in One....Pages 261-268
The Video Window: My Life with a Ludic System....Pages 269-279
Section 3: Communications....Pages 281-286
Bringing Media Spaces Back to the Streets....Pages 287-301
Media Spaces and Mobile Video Telephony....Pages 303-323
Media Spaces, Emergency Response and Palpable Technologies....Pages 325-349
Videoconferencing and Connected Rooms....Pages 351-355
The Halo B2B Studio....Pages 357-368
Presence in Video-Mediated Interactions: Case Studies at CSIRO....Pages 369-392
Build It: Will They Come?....Pages 393-413
Section 4: Where Are We?....Pages 415-416
Fast Forward: Applying Media Space Experiences to Current Technologies....Pages 417-423
Reflecting on Several Metaphors of MUD-Based Media Spaces....Pages 425-440
Making Contact....Pages 441-442
Back Matter....Pages 443-465

✦ Subjects

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction