216 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring the impact of digital technologies in the home, with a shift of emphasis from technology to the people living and using this in their homes. The book covers a wide variety of topics on the design, introduction and use of digital technologies in the home, combining the technological dimension with the cognitive,... Read more

Foreword
Bryan K. Sanderson, Home Renaissance Foundation

Foreword
Carlos P. Cavallé, Social Trends Institute

Preface
Sonia Livingstone

1. Introduction: The Home in the Digital Age
Antonio Argandoña, Joy Malala and Richard C. Peatfield

2. Digital Home: The Missing Element for a People-Centered Digital Future
Mei Lin Fung and Deborah Gale

3. Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Technology in the Home
Matilde Santos and Francesca Toni

4. Contested Homes in the Age of the Cloud: The Changing Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Family Living and Care for Older People in the 21st Century
Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem

5. Homes as Human-Robots Ecologies. An Epistemological Inquiry on the "Domestication" of Robots
Luisa Damiano

6. Homes through the Design Shift in the Digital Age
Ioana Ocnarescu and Dominique Sciamma

7. Automation, the Home, and Work
Stephen Davies and Maria Sophia Aguirre

8. The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Future of Work
Mia Mikic and Joy Malala

9. Ethics and Digital Technologies in the Home
Antonio Argandoña

Biography

Antonio Argandoña is Emeritus Professor at IESE Business School, University of Navarra.

Joy Malala is Lecturer at Aston University Law School.

Richard C. Peatfield is Consultant Neurologist at Princess Margaret Migraine Clinic, Charing Cross Hospital and at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood.

The Home in the Digital Age is a book that has courageously undertaken the challenge of exploring the impact of digital technologies within a specific and complex context: the domestic space. [T]he arguments covered in this book prove the urgent necessity to expand and methodize the “home–digital” combination.

—Chiara Lecce (2022) 'Book Review: The Home in the Digital Age', Home Cultures, 19:2, 159-164, DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2022.2133886