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Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing, Paul Dourish & Genevieve Bell 2011. MIT Press. (pp. 264). ISBN 978-0262015554

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Hornecker, E. Book Review. Comput Supported Coop Work 21, 597–603 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-012-9173-3

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