The Routledge Handbook of Media and Technology Domestication
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Book Description
This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of media domestication – the process of appropriating new media and technology – and delves into the theoretical, conceptual and social implications of the field’s advancement.
Combining the work of the long-established experts in the field with that of emerging scholars, the chapters explore both the domestication concept itself and domestication processes in a wide range of fields, from smartphones used to monitor drug use to the question of time in the domestication of energy buildings. The international team of authors provide an accessible and thorough assessment of key issues, themes, and problems with and within domestication research, and showcase the most important developments over the years.
This truly interdisciplinary collection will be an important resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and academic scholars in media, communication and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural geography, design studies and social studies of technology.
Table of Contents
Maren Hartmann: "One Life Is Not Enough" - Another Kind of Introduction
PART 1 – (Re-)Thinking Domestication
Sonia Livingstone: (Re-)Thinking Domestication: Introduction
1. Eric Hirsch: Domestication and Personhood
2. Thomas Berker: Domestication as User-Led Infrastructuring
3. Corinna Peil & Jutta Röser: Conceptualizing Re-Domestication: Theoretical
Reflections and Empirical Findings to a Neglected Concept
4. Carolina Martìnez & Tobias Olsson: Making Domestication Research Policy
Relevant
5. David Morley & Maren Hartmann: A Dialogue on Domestication
6. Tem Frank Andersen & Peter Vistisen: The Dark Side of Domestication?
Individualization, Anxieties and FoMO Created by the Use of Media
Technologies
PART 2 – Extending Domestication
Lars Holmgaard Christensen: Extending Domestication: Introduction
7. Rich Ling: Domesticating Mobile Communication by Women in the Global
South
8. Sun Sun Lim & Tricia Marjorie Fernandez: The Ceaseless Domestication of
Mobile Communication in Asia: Benefits, Trade-Offs and Responses
9. James Odhiambo Ogone: Nuanced Domestication of Social Media: Intrigues of
Situated Cultural Affordances in Kenyan Local Ecologies of Knowledge
10. Hans-Peter Hahn: The Domestication of Smartphones: Lessons from Case
Studies in Africa
11. Jo-Helle-Valle & Ardis Storm-Mathisen: Domestication Theory: Reflections
from the Kalahari
PART 3 – Technologizing & Designing Domestication
Marianne Ryghaug: Technologizing & Designing Domestication: Introduction
12. Knut Sørensen: Processes of Incorporation. The Relationship between
Socialization and Domestication of Technoscience
13. Vera Klocke: Sitting on the Sofa, Watching Television: Methodological
Reflections on the Study of Material Articulations
14. Iohanna Nicenboim: Data Domestication: Exploring Sensors in the Future
Everyday through Design Fiction
15. Mika Pantzar: A Journey from Domestication Approaches to Practice-Based
Theories
16. Ignacio Siles: The Mutual Domestication of Users and Algorithms: The Case of
Netflix
PART 4 – (Counter-)Domesticating Media & Technologies
Shangwei Wu: (Counter-)Domesticating Media & Technologies: Introduction
17. Maria Bakardjieva: Domesticating the Domesticators: Where Have All the
Agents Gone?
18. Jo Pierson: Counter-Domestication through Infrastructural Inversion: User
Empowerment in Digital Platforms
19. Maren Hartmann: Technologies Running Wild? (Non-)Domestication in the
Context of Homelessness and Smart Technologies
20. Lorian Leong: Configuring the ‘Cuban Internet’: A Networked Domestication
Approach
21. Kristian Møller: Feeling Good, Feeling Safe: Domesticating Phones and Drugs in
Clubbing
PART 5 – Contextualising Domestication?
Niklas Strüver: Contextualising Domestication? Introduction
22. Yang Wang: Understanding and Resolving the ‘Content-Context Conundrum’ in
ICT Domestication Research
23. Ida Marie Henricksen: Situational Domestication: Personal Technology and
Public Places
24. Faltin Karlsen: The Digital Detox Camp: Practices and Motivations for Reverse
Domestication
25. Kristine Ask: Unpacking Play: A Domestication Perspective on Digital Games
26. Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson, Hugh Davies & Will Balmford: Playing at
Home
27. Leslie Haddon: Variety within Domestication Research: Time, Perceptions and
Interactions
PART 6 – Homing in on domestication?
David Waldecker: Homing in on Domestication? Introduction
28. Deborah Chambers: Lockdown Screen Worlds: The Domestication and Re-
Socialization of Zoom
29. Stephen J. Neville & Alex Borkowski: Broken Domestication: The Resonant
Politics of Voice in Gendered Technology
30. Justine Lloyd: What Do Women Want? Broadcasting for Women and Radio’s
Gendered Domestication
31. Johanna Birkland: Domestication and Older Adults – Changing Definitions of
Home and Family
32. Leah Jerop Komen: M-learning: Appropriating Social Media for Pedagogy in
Africa
33. Jenny Kennedy & Indigo Holcombe-James: Digital Inclusion and Domestication
Editor(s)
Biography
Maren Hartmann is Professor for communication and media sociology at Berlin University for the Arts, Germany.