The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media
How do pervasive digital devices—smartphones, iPods, GPS navigation systems, and cameras, among others—influence the way we use spaces? In The Tuning of Place, Richard Coyne argues that these ubiquitous devices and the networks that support them become the means of making incremental adjustments within spaces—of tuning place. Pervasive media help us formulate a sense of place, writes Coyne, through their capacity to introduce small changes, in the same way that tuning a musical instrument...
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How pervasive digital devices—smartphones, iPods, GPS navigation systems, and their networks—help us formulate a sense of place and refine social relationships.
\ From the Publisher" The Tuning of Place is impressively well documented…Coyne's book provides a valuable interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in the influence of digital media on social interaction." — Catherine Guastavino, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology\ \
