Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move

Digital Proxemics - New Book Announcement

Fifty years ago, Edward T. Hall's The Hidden Dimension uncovered
proxemics for a generation of scholars and students of human
communication. Today, Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways
We Move examines the study of proxemics in digital, hybrid, and
digitally enhanced spaces.

Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move by John A.
McArthur, Ph.D., is published by Peter Lang and is part of the Digital
Formations series curated by Steve Jones.

Combining dynamic stories, cutting-edge research, and deep reflection on
the role of space in our lives, Digital Proxemics examines the ways that
our uses of physical and digital spaces and our uses of technology are
converging. It investigates the role of digital communication in
proxemics, offering explorations of the ways digital technology shapes
our personal bodily movement, our interpersonal negotiation of social
space, and our navigation of public spaces and places. Through the lens
of information and user-experience design, it adds forbidden spaces,
ubicomp, augmented reality, digital surveillance, and virtual reality to
the growing lexicon surrounding proxemics. The result is a spatial turn
in the study of digital technology and a digital turn in the study of
proxemics.
As our culture changes, our ability to make choices about how to move
will be called into question, as will our expectations for what roles
technology will play in our lives. As we navigate this intersection,
Digital Proxemics is at once a valuable lens through which we can view
our shifting culture, a cautionary tale through which we might envision
problematic outcomes, and an optimistic projection of possibility for
the future of human communication and technology interaction.

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