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This special issue revisits and reconsider the concept of domestication, as mobile and digital media become integral to home life.
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Modern mundane life is brimming with a variety of data-driven technologies that are supposed to augment the practices they are involved in. As humans bring these technologies into their lives in a process of domestication, they tame them and are simultaneously influenced by their presence. In combining domestication research and an empirical analysis of current, digital, and interconnected media, this issue examines the process of taming with an emphasis on practices. The contributions in this issue explore the use of digitally connected media such as vacuum robots, smart speakers, drones, and kitchen appliances with reference to the domestication paradigm from interdisciplinary perspectives including media studies, sociology, anthropology, and human-computer interaction.
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Pages: 246
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Digital Culture & Society
Publication Date: 05 December 2023
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9783837663570
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism

Tim Hector (M.A.) works as a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 1187 »Media of Cooperation« in the project »Un/desired Observation in Interaction: Smart Environments, Language, Body and Senses in Private Homes« at Universität Siegen. He did a PhD in applied linguistics on the linguistic domestication of voice assistants in private homes. His research is focussed on media linguistics, conversation analysis and linguistic praxeology.
David Waldecker (Dr.) is a sociologist and an academic librarian in training at Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt. He was a post-doc at the Collaborative Research Center 1187 »Media of Cooperation«, Universität Siegen, and published his dissertation on Adorno in the recording studio in 2022.
Niklas Strüver (M.A.) is a PhD candidate at the Collaborative Research Center 1187 »Media of Cooperation« at Universität Siegen. His research is focussed around the sociology of technology and his dissertation explores the sociotechnical relations of voice assistants.
Tanja Aal is a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 1187 »Media of Cooperation« at Universität Siegen. Here she works in the project A05: »The Cooperative Creation of User Autonomy in the Context of the Ageing Society«. In her doctoral she focusses on (digital) inclusion of vulnerable human and non-human actors by using the Design Justice Framework.

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A Praxeological Approach Towards the Domestication of Connected Media Technologies 5
Rethinking Material Articulations of "Television" in Times After TV 25
Cyborg Cooks: Mothers and the Anthropology of Smart Kitchens 49
Domesticating Motile Media 71
Frustration Free: How Alexa Orchestrates the Development of the Smart Home 99
Reinventing Drones: From DIY Experimentation to Professionalization 125
Media Use of Older Adults in Bangladesh: Religion, Perceived Sinfulness and the Taming of Media 153
Doing Home by Using Digital Assistive Technologies 179
Domestication of Smart Speakers by Older Users 203
Crafting Home with E-Textiles: Accessing Concepts of the Home in a Socially and Culturally Diverse Setting 213
The Questions Are Still Good 225
Biographical Notes 241