towards theorizing an augmented reality

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  1. 2nd November 2009

    […] prove fruitful.  Fellow Sociology Lens news editor, nathan jurgenson, recently argued in “towards theorizing an augmented reality” that we need to anticipate an ascending paradigm where “digital and material realities […]

  2. 11th January 2010

    […] realm as separate from material reality opposed to a view of the material and digital as enmeshed (as I have argued they are, especially for young people). The extent to which social media awareness campaigns are actually […]

  3. 12th February 2010

    […] standpoint in a world of physical books versus those developing in an augmented world (that is, the massive blurring of the physical and digital that is occurring). As the physical-only is being replaced by the augmented, the physical-only folks react by […]

  4. 31st August 2010

    […] onto the physical world [examples of where it is now, and where it might be going]. However, I have argued that augmented reality can also refer to our digital profiles becoming increasingly implicated with […]

  5. 25th November 2010

    […] that we currently live in an “augmented reality,” one where, as I have stated, “digital and material realities dialectically co-construct each other.”[check out http://www.datenform.de/%5D […]

  6. 8th January 2011

    […] Yes, even a CGI-filled big-budget glowing Disney spectacle can provide opportunity for theorization. Of the recent Internet-themed blockbusters – namely, Avatar (2009); The Social Network (2010) – Tron: Legacy (2010) best captures the essence of this blog: that the digital and the physical are enmeshed together into an augmented reality. […]

  7. 11th February 2011

    […] world, and our offline interactions are influenced by digitality. The reality in which we exist is increasingly augmented by atoms and bits, and this augmented reality is inhabited by an augmented cyborg self (opposed to the dualistic […]

  8. 24th February 2011

    […] a 2009 post titled “Towards Theorizing An Augmented Reality,” I discussed geo-tagging (think Foursquare or Facebook Places), street view, face […]

  9. 28th February 2011

    […] a 2009 post titled “Towards Theorizing An Augmented Reality,” I discussed geo-tagging (think Foursquare or Facebook Places), street view, face recognition, […]

  10. 7th March 2011

    […] Some view the physical and digital as (1) separate, akin to the film The Matrix, or (2) as an augmented reality where atoms and bits are increasingly imploding into each […]

  11. 14th March 2011

    […] Some view the physical and digital as (1) separate, akin to the film The Matrix, or (2) as an augmented reality where atoms and bits are increasingly imploding into each […]

  12. 25th April 2011

    […] conceptual leap that the digital sphere is not this separate space like The Matrix but instead that reality is augmented. I’ve been through the argument enough times on this blog that I’ll just refer you to […]

  13. 28th April 2011

    […] leap that the digital sphere is not this separate space like The Matrix but instead that reality is augmented. I’ve been through the argument enough times on this blog that I’ll just refer you to […]

  14. 3rd May 2011

    […] which I seek to describe. A quick catch-up: I initially laid out the idea of augmented reality here; expounded on its opposite, what I call digital dualism, here; and fellow Cyborgology editor PJ […]

  15. 6th May 2011

    […] which I seek to describe. A quick catch-up: I initially laid out the idea of augmented reality here; expounded on its opposite, what I call digital dualism, here; and fellow Cyborgology editor PJ […]

  16. 2nd June 2011

    […] follows the trend of what I have labeled “augmented reality”: the fact that physical and digital are increasingly imploding into each other. And by making our […]

  17. 18th June 2011

    […] Instead they offer the concept of augmented reality as a way of sensitising us to the fact “that digital and material realities dialectically co-construct each other.” The first question I often think of when theorists offer dialectical explanations or […]

  18. 14th July 2011

    […] friendly with Zuckerberg and Facebook, it seems that the presidential campaign has found itself augmented by and reliant upon social media tools; some of the very same tools many of us use, like Facebook, […]

  19. 17th July 2011

    […] follows the trend of what I have labeled “augmented reality”: the fact that physical and digital are increasingly imploding into each other. And by making our […]

  20. 17th July 2011

    […] friendly with Zuckerberg and Facebook, it seems that the presidential campaign has found itself augmented by and reliant upon social media tools; some of the very same tools many of us use, like Facebook, […]

  21. 17th July 2011

    […] social media users already know: that the digital and physical are increasingly enmeshed into an augmented reality. The report goes further to illuistrate that not only are digital and physical networks enmeshed, […]

  22. 30th July 2011

    […] typique du tirage papier ou du Polaroid. Cela suit la tendance de ce que j’ai appelé la « réalité augmentée » : le fait que le réel et le numérique s’envahissent mutuellement de plus en plus. Lorsque […]

  23. 2nd December 2011

    […] we have been growing in readership, and 2) we are embarking on a new, ongoing, project to situate Augmented Reality (AR) amongst other theories of society’s relationship to technology. Today I want to […]

  24. 3rd December 2011

    […] example of how “digital and material realities dialectically co-construct each other” (Jurgenson 2009). In this case, the widespread proliferation of texting and its seeming ubiquitousness in daily […]

  25. 15th February 2012

    […] interacciones fuera de línes son influenciadas por lo digital. La realidad en la cual existimos está crecientemente aumentada por átomos y bits, y esta realidad aumentada está habitada por un aumentado yo ciborg (lo cual es opuesto al […]

  26. 29th February 2012

    […] Difference Between Curators and Creators Social media’s promise is that of an augmented reality: one wherein physical and virtual combine to create a blurring between offline and […]

  27. 30th August 2012

    […] first coined this usage of the term “augmented reality” in 2009, but most of us at Cyborgology tend to reference this 2011 post in which Jurgenson states, I am […]

  28. 20th September 2012

    […] “Towards theorizing an augmented reality” by Nathan Jugenson (written prior to the start of Cyborgology) […]

  29. 20th September 2012

    […] “Towards theorizing an augmented reality” by Nathan Jugenson (written prior to the start of Cyborgology) […]

  30. 27th September 2012

    […] “Towards theorizing an augmented reality” by Nathan Jugenson (written prior to the start of Cyborgology) […]

  31. 18th March 2013

    […] new opportunities of the Web Squared in which we all live today and from which it is clear that digital and material realities constantly co-construct each other. That is why, since I finished my PhD dissertation, the obvious has imposed itself on me: the […]

  32. 5th July 2013

    […] the thesis proposed by Nathan Jurgenson and his colleagues at the Cyborgology blog. Starting in 2009 Jurgenson began to promote a concept he called augmented reality. Jurgenson holds it up as an […]

  33. 23rd August 2013

    […] the online as separate from and lesser than the physical. Jurgenson proposes an alternative view of “augmented reality,” in which “digital and material realities dialectically co-construct each other.”[20] This piece […]

  34. 9th March 2015

    […] to task many times before. Nathan Jurgenson and others have proposed in its place the notion of augmented reality—the “merging of material reality with digital information, as well as the augmentation of […]

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