Digital Domesticity - Media, Materiality, and Home Life

Digital Domesticity is a timely socio-material account of media technologies and domestic life during the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

List of contents

• List of Figures


• Acknowledgments


• Project Legend


• 1. Histories


• 2. Ecologies


• 3. Appropriations


• 4. Housekeepings


• 5. Negotiations


• 6. Non-uses


• 7. Displacements


• Conclusion


• References


• Index

About the author

Jenny Kennedy is Research Fellow in Media and Communication and the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) at RMIT University.

Michael Arnold is Associate Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne.

Martin Gibbs is Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne.

Bjorn Nansen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.

Rowan Wilken is Associate Professor of Media and Communication and Principal Research Fellow in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) at RMIT University.

Summary

Digital Domesticity is a timely socio-material account of media technologies and domestic life during the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

Additional text

Through the combination of their studies conducted over 17 years, the authors provide a novel and nuanced perspective on the changing ICTs in Australian homes. In this panoramic yet detailed account, we see the reconfiguring of domestic space, re-evaluations of technology over time, strategies to re-domesticate ICTS, and the ongoing parent-child re-negotiations of children's use of digital devices. This is a thought-provoking book with which the reader can engage.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Arnold, Arnold Michael, Martin Gibbs, Gibbs Martin, Jenny Kennedy, Jenny (Postdoctoral Research Fellow Kennedy, Kennedy Jenny, Bjorn Nansen, Nansen Bjorn, Rowan Wilken, Wilken Rowan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.06.2020
• EAN: 9780190905798
• ISBN: 978-0-19-090579-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SCIENCE / History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, HOUSE & HOME / General, Communication Studies, History of engineering and technology, Impact of science & technology on society, History of engineering & technology, Impact of science and technology on society