Adaptive, fluid, and evolving contexts that accommodate ICT-enabled spaces, designs, and services involving an interactive dynamic of people, technologies, and cities featuring emerging forms (interactions, relationships, urbanizing) and attributes (awareness, choice, improvisation).
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Emergent Digital Literacies: Ambient Learning, Play, and Inclusion
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7882-6.ch005
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to explore digital literacies in the context of smart cities in relation to aware people and aware technologies. This work aims to shed light on the ambient concept for learning, play, and inclusion contributing to emergent requirements for urban digital literacies. The research literature for digital literacies, ambient learning, ambient play, and ambient inclusion is explored in this chapter in the context of smart cities, enabling identification of issues, controversies, and problems. Using an exploratory case study approach, solutions and recommendations are advanced. This chapter makes a contribution to 1) the research literature for digital literacies, ambient learning, ambient play, and ambient inclusion in smart cities; 2) the evolving of urban theory for 21st century cities; and 3) ambient urbanities by formulating and operationalizing a conceptual framework for ambient learning, play, and inclusion for smart cities in support of research and practice.