Paper Info
Title
Towards the virtual home: Construing the multimedia-home to enhance cultural and biographic continuity
Abstract
The unexpected proliferation of new electronic media in private homes under free market economies is taking place without regard for long term consumer interests.The digital information revolution is presenting serious threats of information overload, cultural discontinuity, 'commodification' of knowledge, and colonisation of the intimate private life-worlds by impersonal and abstract systems. Further, it is mainly focused on a vertical axis of communication: information down to the consumers, money up to the commercial providers.But multimedia technologies, presently being exploited in the service of one-way mass media and commercially-dominated interactive communication, may be considered alternatively as tools available for decentralised use in private homes and local neighbourhoods. It is suggested that concepts of private homes as self-referential systems and the construction of virtual homes and virtual neighbourhoods - may point the way to establish a grounding in real homes' and real neighbourhoods' use of technologies otherwise conducive to a disembedding of persons from psychologically important local, biographical and cultural continuity.An experimental multimedia-home at the University of Copenhagen was in function as an early total-environment prototype for research and development along these lines until 1998.A new Experimental Home may be created as an element in the new KUA (Copenhagen University Amager) campus currently under construction.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1007/978-0-387-35400-2_22
HCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
biographic continuity,virtual home
Advertising,Private home,Free market,Electronic media,Business
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
57
1571-5736
0-7923-7253-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kresten Bjerg111.06