Notes on E-learning and Digital Culture
Part of my reflections on the course E-Learning and Digital Culture for the MSc in E-Learning, University of Edinburgh
Galloway, Anne (2004) Intimations of Everyday Life: Ubiquitous computing and the city in Cultural Studies vol. 18 No.2/3 March/May 2004 pp. 384-408
Galloway argues that ubiquitous computing seeks to embed computers in our everyday life so that they are invisible and taken for granted while cultural theories of everyday life seeks to make the invisible, visible. She feels that researchers from both fields would benefit from collaboration. pp. 384-5
She quotes Weiser:
A good tool is an invisible tool. By invisible, I mean that the tool does not intrude on your consciousness; you focus on the task, not the tool. Weiser 1993 p. 7
