G Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 43906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0096-2088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Destroying the peace of the line’
Australia’s Overland Telegraph Line was completed in 1872. For more than 50 years, it served as a telecommunication backbone for the country, and many stories emerged around it. In later years, it also helped shape road and rail infrastructure, which in turn created a corridor for travel and tourism and fueled a new set of stories for how Australians thought about and saw themselves. In the 1920s, white settler women travelled along the route of …
Wool, Wires and Water
The Strangways Springs artesian mound spring complex in South Australia reveals a layered history in which resources, technology, labor, and culture are significant and changing variables. The site exists in Arabana country, and for thousands of years provided a location for human shelter, artesian waters, and life sustaining resources. The arrival of sheep stations in the “Far North” of South Australia represented a significant rupture and the c…
Using multi-methods in archaeology
The Overland Telegraph system linked Australia to nascent global information and communication networks. Its arrival marked a key milestone in what we call Australia's 'telegraph time'-a fifty-year period from 1854-1904 when telegraphic systems were a significant driver of changes in economic, political and cultural activities. This British colonial infrastructure also marked the beginnings of the displacement of First Nations people along the ro…
One complete system? Telegraphy, cybernetics and industrial archaeology
Gender and Artificial Intelligence
This entry explores the interactions and intersections of gender and artificial intelligence (AI) over the past century. It presents four anthropological and anthropologically inspired approaches to scrutinize relationships between gender and technical systems: first, looking at what came before the birth of AI; second, studying the sites of production of AI; third, examining how perceived biological differences still inform AI classifications fo…
Pandemic Passages
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020, and the world has been different ever since. Recalling the work of Victor Turner and Arnold van Gennep, this article explores how their ideas about rituals and rites of passage can be used to make sense of the pandemic. In particular, it seeks to show how using the structure of rituals of separation and incorporation and liminality can unpack and highlight changing ide…
Do more data equal more truth? Toward a cybernetic approach to data
In Australia, as in other places in the world, we accumulate and curate Big Data – in the public and private spheres; as consumers and citizens; for profit, for proof and for the promises it holds. Yet, data are only ever a partial snapshot of the lives of humans, communities, environments and places. Data has its place, but in order to use data to effect change, we need to understand which questions to ask, which assumptions to suspend, which da…
Making life
This article is based on a talk for the Third Annual Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking lecture at Rochester Institute of Technology, which took place on 23 September 2014. The talk weaved together a brief history of robots, feral data, the internet of things, and consumer materiality to illuminate how life infuses our imagination of technology. This article illuminates the intersection of culture and technology and provides a live…
Digital work and play
In this article, we advance current discussions by bringing together debates about digital play and digital labour. We consider everyday life entanglements of mobile media and digital work and play at home. To develop this argument, we analyse the embodied and affective dimensions of mundane everyday life at home with digital media through the concepts of atmosphere and ambient play. We argue that attention to how digital play is implicated in th…
Digital kinships
New media location-based services like Google Maps and practices like geo-tagging have become an integral part of everyday life, entangling movements across relationships, lifestyles, places and spaces. Existing research has shown that the growth of locative media is impacting upon how people experience place, time and mobility, in ways that are uneven across cultural, generational and temporal scales ( Gazzard 2011 ; Farman 2011 ; de Souza e Sil…
Unpacking Cars
Cars are significant sites of human activity and here one car is investigated for what it can tell us about culture and technology; the author, who specializes in the study of technology and its uses, is senior cultural anthropologist at INTEL corporation
Contextualizing Ubiquitous Computing
This chapter begins with a discussion of Weiser’s classic article in Scientific American (1991) that laid the foundations for a research program in ubicomp, then turning its attention to the balance between past, present, and future embedded in conventional discourses about ubicomp. Of particular interest is the central conundrum posed by the fact that Weiser’s vision of the future is not only by this point an old one but also an extremely North …
Yesterday’s tomorrows
Ubiquitous computing is unusual amongst technological research arenas. Most areas of computer science research, such as programming language implementation, distributed operating system design, or denotational semantics, are defined largely by technical problems, and driven by building upon and elaborating a body of past results. Ubiquitous computing, by contrast, encompasses a wide range of disparate technological areas brought together by a foc…
The Infrastructure of Experience and the Experience of Infrastructure
Although the current developments in ubiquitous and pervasive computing are driven largely by technological opportunities, they have radical implications not just for technology design but also for the ways in which we experience and interact with computation. In particular, the move of computation 'off the desktop' and into the world, whether embedded in the environment around us or carried or worn on our bodies, suggests that computation is beg…
The age of the thumb
Satu Keluarga, Satu Komputer (One Home, One Computer)
April 01 2006 Satu Keluarga, Satu Komputer (One Home, One Computer): Cultural Accounts of ICTs in South and Southeast Asia Genevieve Bell Genevieve Bell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Genevieve Bell Online ISSN: 1531-4790 Print ISSN: 0747-9360 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Design Issues (2006) 22 (2): 35–55. https://doi.org/10.1162/desi.2006.22.2.35 Cite Icon Ci…
Information as a cultural category
One of the questions that invariably comes up when discussing ambient intelligence is the thorny problem of just what the term might mean. It’s catchy and provocative, but attempts to define it tend to be unsatisfying. Sometimes, of course, a slogan of this sort can productively inspire without necessarily being crisply defined, and so it is with “ambient intelligence. ” However, it is still worth taking the question of meaning seriously. Our con…
The age of auspicious computing
No abstract available
The american woman's home
Sexual networks
Action Research, Special Needs and School Development
Part 1 Action research and special educational needs: pupils with behavioural problems whole school policies for integrating pupils with special educational needs medical problems developing liaison between schools and between school and home learning difficulties. Part 2 School development through networking: school development, networking and managing for change training and developing special needs teachers lessons for action research networks…
Psychiatric admissions and social deprivation
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to assess the relationship between social deprivation, as measured by the Jarman under-privileged area score (UPA score), and psychiatric admission rates and length of stay within an inner London borough. DESIGN--The study was a retrospective survey of psychiatric admission rates for electoral wards in the London borough of Islington in relation to Jarman UPA scores and subscores. SETTING--Islington Health Authority p…
Individual Differences in Children's Preferences Among Recent Paintings
S ummary . A study of preferences among recent paintings was conducted with 86 Melbourne schoolchildren. Although dimensions of preference were found which were similar to those identified by children in other studies (i.e., representation, colour, and complexity), differences by sex and grade were found only for colour and complexity. In addition, preference for representational painting, often found in studies encompassing a range of periods, w…
The Infrastructure of Experience and the Experience of Infrastructure
Although the current developments in ubiquitous and pervasive computing are driven largely by technological opportunities, they have radical implications not just for technology design but also for the ways in which we experience and interact with computation. In particular, the move of computation 'off the desktop' and into the world, whether embedded in the environment around us or carried or worn on our bodies, suggests that computation is beg…
Digital work and play
In this article, we advance current discussions by bringing together debates about digital play and digital labour. We consider everyday life entanglements of mobile media and digital work and play at home. To develop this argument, we analyse the embodied and affective dimensions of mundane everyday life at home with digital media through the concepts of atmosphere and ambient play. We argue that attention to how digital play is implicated in th…
The age of the thumb
Satu Keluarga, Satu Komputer (One Home, One Computer)
April 01 2006 Satu Keluarga, Satu Komputer (One Home, One Computer): Cultural Accounts of ICTs in South and Southeast Asia Genevieve Bell Genevieve Bell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Genevieve Bell Online ISSN: 1531-4790 Print ISSN: 0747-9360 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Design Issues (2006) 22 (2): 35–55. https://doi.org/10.1162/desi.2006.22.2.35 Cite Icon Ci…
Psychiatric admissions and social deprivation
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to assess the relationship between social deprivation, as measured by the Jarman under-privileged area score (UPA score), and psychiatric admission rates and length of stay within an inner London borough. DESIGN--The study was a retrospective survey of psychiatric admission rates for electoral wards in the London borough of Islington in relation to Jarman UPA scores and subscores. SETTING--Islington Health Authority p…
One complete system? Telegraphy, cybernetics and industrial archaeology
Do more data equal more truth? Toward a cybernetic approach to data
In Australia, as in other places in the world, we accumulate and curate Big Data – in the public and private spheres; as consumers and citizens; for profit, for proof and for the promises it holds. Yet, data are only ever a partial snapshot of the lives of humans, communities, environments and places. Data has its place, but in order to use data to effect change, we need to understand which questions to ask, which assumptions to suspend, which da…
Sexual networks
Individual Differences in Children's Preferences Among Recent Paintings
S ummary . A study of preferences among recent paintings was conducted with 86 Melbourne schoolchildren. Although dimensions of preference were found which were similar to those identified by children in other studies (i.e., representation, colour, and complexity), differences by sex and grade were found only for colour and complexity. In addition, preference for representational painting, often found in studies encompassing a range of periods, w…
Psychiatric admissions and social deprivation
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to assess the relationship between social deprivation, as measured by the Jarman under-privileged area score (UPA score), and psychiatric admission rates and length of stay within an inner London borough. DESIGN--The study was a retrospective survey of psychiatric admission rates for electoral wards in the London borough of Islington in relation to Jarman UPA scores and subscores. SETTING--Islington Health Authority p…
Action Research, Special Needs and School Development
Part 1 Action research and special educational needs: pupils with behavioural problems whole school policies for integrating pupils with special educational needs medical problems developing liaison between schools and between school and home learning difficulties. Part 2 School development through networking: school development, networking and managing for change training and developing special needs teachers lessons for action research networks…
Sexual networks
The american woman's home
The age of auspicious computing
No abstract available
Information as a cultural category
One of the questions that invariably comes up when discussing ambient intelligence is the thorny problem of just what the term might mean. It’s catchy and provocative, but attempts to define it tend to be unsatisfying. Sometimes, of course, a slogan of this sort can productively inspire without necessarily being crisply defined, and so it is with “ambient intelligence. ” However, it is still worth taking the question of meaning seriously. Our con…
The age of the thumb
Satu Keluarga, Satu Komputer (One Home, One Computer)
April 01 2006 Satu Keluarga, Satu Komputer (One Home, One Computer): Cultural Accounts of ICTs in South and Southeast Asia Genevieve Bell Genevieve Bell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Genevieve Bell Online ISSN: 1531-4790 Print ISSN: 0747-9360 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Design Issues (2006) 22 (2): 35–55. https://doi.org/10.1162/desi.2006.22.2.35 Cite Icon Ci…
Yesterday’s tomorrows
Ubiquitous computing is unusual amongst technological research arenas. Most areas of computer science research, such as programming language implementation, distributed operating system design, or denotational semantics, are defined largely by technical problems, and driven by building upon and elaborating a body of past results. Ubiquitous computing, by contrast, encompasses a wide range of disparate technological areas brought together by a foc…
The Infrastructure of Experience and the Experience of Infrastructure
Although the current developments in ubiquitous and pervasive computing are driven largely by technological opportunities, they have radical implications not just for technology design but also for the ways in which we experience and interact with computation. In particular, the move of computation 'off the desktop' and into the world, whether embedded in the environment around us or carried or worn on our bodies, suggests that computation is beg…
Contextualizing Ubiquitous Computing
This chapter begins with a discussion of Weiser’s classic article in Scientific American (1991) that laid the foundations for a research program in ubicomp, then turning its attention to the balance between past, present, and future embedded in conventional discourses about ubicomp. Of particular interest is the central conundrum posed by the fact that Weiser’s vision of the future is not only by this point an old one but also an extremely North …
Unpacking Cars
Cars are significant sites of human activity and here one car is investigated for what it can tell us about culture and technology; the author, who specializes in the study of technology and its uses, is senior cultural anthropologist at INTEL corporation
Digital kinships
New media location-based services like Google Maps and practices like geo-tagging have become an integral part of everyday life, entangling movements across relationships, lifestyles, places and spaces. Existing research has shown that the growth of locative media is impacting upon how people experience place, time and mobility, in ways that are uneven across cultural, generational and temporal scales ( Gazzard 2011 ; Farman 2011 ; de Souza e Sil…
Digital work and play
In this article, we advance current discussions by bringing together debates about digital play and digital labour. We consider everyday life entanglements of mobile media and digital work and play at home. To develop this argument, we analyse the embodied and affective dimensions of mundane everyday life at home with digital media through the concepts of atmosphere and ambient play. We argue that attention to how digital play is implicated in th…
Making life
This article is based on a talk for the Third Annual Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking lecture at Rochester Institute of Technology, which took place on 23 September 2014. The talk weaved together a brief history of robots, feral data, the internet of things, and consumer materiality to illuminate how life infuses our imagination of technology. This article illuminates the intersection of culture and technology and provides a live…
Gender and Artificial Intelligence
This entry explores the interactions and intersections of gender and artificial intelligence (AI) over the past century. It presents four anthropological and anthropologically inspired approaches to scrutinize relationships between gender and technical systems: first, looking at what came before the birth of AI; second, studying the sites of production of AI; third, examining how perceived biological differences still inform AI classifications fo…
Pandemic Passages
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020, and the world has been different ever since. Recalling the work of Victor Turner and Arnold van Gennep, this article explores how their ideas about rituals and rites of passage can be used to make sense of the pandemic. In particular, it seeks to show how using the structure of rituals of separation and incorporation and liminality can unpack and highlight changing ide…
Do more data equal more truth? Toward a cybernetic approach to data
In Australia, as in other places in the world, we accumulate and curate Big Data – in the public and private spheres; as consumers and citizens; for profit, for proof and for the promises it holds. Yet, data are only ever a partial snapshot of the lives of humans, communities, environments and places. Data has its place, but in order to use data to effect change, we need to understand which questions to ask, which assumptions to suspend, which da…
One complete system? Telegraphy, cybernetics and industrial archaeology
Wool, Wires and Water
The Strangways Springs artesian mound spring complex in South Australia reveals a layered history in which resources, technology, labor, and culture are significant and changing variables. The site exists in Arabana country, and for thousands of years provided a location for human shelter, artesian waters, and life sustaining resources. The arrival of sheep stations in the “Far North” of South Australia represented a significant rupture and the c…
Using multi-methods in archaeology
The Overland Telegraph system linked Australia to nascent global information and communication networks. Its arrival marked a key milestone in what we call Australia's 'telegraph time'-a fifty-year period from 1854-1904 when telegraphic systems were a significant driver of changes in economic, political and cultural activities. This British colonial infrastructure also marked the beginnings of the displacement of First Nations people along the ro…
‘Destroying the peace of the line’
Australia’s Overland Telegraph Line was completed in 1872. For more than 50 years, it served as a telecommunication backbone for the country, and many stories emerged around it. In later years, it also helped shape road and rail infrastructure, which in turn created a corridor for travel and tourism and fueled a new set of stories for how Australians thought about and saw themselves. In the 1920s, white settler women travelled along the route of …
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