Domestication of Media and Technology
Published on 16. December 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-335-21768-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides an overview of a key concept in media and technology studies: domestication. Theories around domestication shed light upon the process in which a technology changes its status from outrageous novelty to an aspect of everyday life which is taken for granted. The contributors collect past, current and future applications of the concept of domestication, critically reflect on its theoretical legacy, and offer comments about further development. The first part of Domestication of Media and Technology provides an overview of the conceptual development and theory of domestication. In the second part of the book, contributors look at a diverse range of empirical studies that use the domestication approach to examine the dynamics between users and technologies. These studies include:
Mobile information and communications techologies (ICTs) and the transformation of the relationship between private and the public spheres
Home-based internet use: the two-way dynamic between the household and its social environment
Disadvantaged women in Europe undertaking introductory internet courses
Urban middle-class families in China who embrace ICTs and view them as instruments of upward mobility and symbols of success
The book offers valuable insights for both experienced researchers and students looking for an introduction to the concept of domestication. Contributors: Maria Bakardjieva, University of Calgary; Thomas Berker, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Leslie Haddon, Essex University; Maren Hartmann, University of Erfurt; Deirdre Hynes, Dublin City University; Sun Sun Lim, National University of Singapore; Anna Maria Russo Lemor, University of Colorado at Boulder; David Morley, Goldsmiths College, University of London; Jo Pierson, TNO-STB, Delft, Netherlands; Yves Punie, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in Seville; Els Rommes, Nijmegen University; Roger Silverstone, London School of Economics and Political Science; Knut H. Sorensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Katie J. Ward, University of Sheffield.
Mobile information and communications techologies (ICTs) and the transformation of the relationship between private and the public spheres
Home-based internet use: the two-way dynamic between the household and its social environment
Disadvantaged women in Europe undertaking introductory internet courses
Urban middle-class families in China who embrace ICTs and view them as instruments of upward mobility and symbols of success
The book offers valuable insights for both experienced researchers and students looking for an introduction to the concept of domestication. Contributors: Maria Bakardjieva, University of Calgary; Thomas Berker, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Leslie Haddon, Essex University; Maren Hartmann, University of Erfurt; Deirdre Hynes, Dublin City University; Sun Sun Lim, National University of Singapore; Anna Maria Russo Lemor, University of Colorado at Boulder; David Morley, Goldsmiths College, University of London; Jo Pierson, TNO-STB, Delft, Netherlands; Yves Punie, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in Seville; Els Rommes, Nijmegen University; Roger Silverstone, London School of Economics and Political Science; Knut H. Sorensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Katie J. Ward, University of Sheffield.
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Maren Hartmann currently works at the University of Erfurt. Her latest research project was on young adults and new media and was based at the Free University of Brussels. Her PhD work -- published as Technologies and Utopias (Reinhard Fischer Verlag, 2004) -- analysed metaphoric user vocabularies in and around cyberspace. She has worked at several UK universities in the past, both in teaching and research positions. Thomas Berker is research fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is the author of a book on the history of the Internet in the early 1990s. More recently he has published on the everyday life of transnational knowledge work and domestic energy consumption. Yves Punie is Research Fellow at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in Seville. He has worked on several research projects in the area of foresight exercises and socio-economic impact studies in the field of IST. In his PhD work, he concentrated on social studies of new technologies, especially in relation to the domestic environment. Katie J. Ward is a Research Fellow in the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research interests include the consumption of media, identity construction, and the relationship between the media and health-care.
Content
1. Introduction
Part I. Updating domestication: Theory and its history
2. What's 'home' got to do with it? Contradictory dynamics in the domestication of technology and the dislocation of domesticity
3. Domestication: the enactment of technology
4. Domestication running wild. From the moral economy of the household to the mores of a culture
5. The triple articulation of ICTs. Media as technological objects, symbolic environments and individual texts
6. Empirical studies using the domestication framework
II. Applying domestication: Empirical work <
7. "Fitting the internet into our lives" IT courses for disadvantaged users
8. The bald guy just ate an orange. Domestication, work and home
9. Making a 'home'. The domestication of Information and Communication Technologies in single parents' households
10. From cultural to information revolution. ICT domestication by middle-class Chinese families
11. Domestication at work in small businesses
III. Outlook
12. Domesticating domestication. Reflections on the life of a concept
Part I. Updating domestication: Theory and its history
2. What's 'home' got to do with it? Contradictory dynamics in the domestication of technology and the dislocation of domesticity
3. Domestication: the enactment of technology
4. Domestication running wild. From the moral economy of the household to the mores of a culture
5. The triple articulation of ICTs. Media as technological objects, symbolic environments and individual texts
6. Empirical studies using the domestication framework
II. Applying domestication: Empirical work <
7. "Fitting the internet into our lives" IT courses for disadvantaged users
8. The bald guy just ate an orange. Domestication, work and home
9. Making a 'home'. The domestication of Information and Communication Technologies in single parents' households
10. From cultural to information revolution. ICT domestication by middle-class Chinese families
11. Domestication at work in small businesses
III. Outlook
12. Domesticating domestication. Reflections on the life of a concept