1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Media and Technology Domestication

Edited By Maren Hartmann Copyright 2023
528 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

528 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

528 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Maren Hartmann: "One Life Is Not Enough" – Another kind of introduction

PART I – (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 and Jutta Röser: Conceptualizing re-domestication: theoretical

reflections and empirical findings to a neglected concept

4. Carolina Martìnez and Tobias Olsson: Making domestication research policy

relevant

5. David Morley and Maren Hartmann: A dialogue on domestication

6. Tem Frank Andersen and Peter Vistisen: The dark side of domestication?

Individualization, anxieties and FoMO created by the use of media

technologies

PART II – Extending domestication

Lars Bajlum Holmgaard Christensen: Extending domestication: introduction

7. Rich Ling: Domesticating mobile communication by women in the Global

South

8. Sun Sun Lim and 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 and Ardis Storm-Mathisen: Domestication theory: reflections

from the Kalahari

PART III – Technologizing and designing domestication

Marianne Ryghaug: Technologizing and designing domestication: introduction

12. Knut H. 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 IV – (Counter-)domesticating media and technologies

Shangwei Wu: (Counter-)domesticating media and 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: Rooflessness running wild? Taming technologies, taming our fears

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 V – 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 and Will Balmford: Playing at

home

27. Leslie Haddon: Variety within domestication research: time, perceptions and

interactions

PART IV – 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 and Alex Borkowski: Broken domestication: the resonant

politics of voice in gendered technology

30. Justine Lloyd: What do women want? Radio's gendered domestication

31. Johanna L. H. Birkland: Domestication and older adults – changing definitions of

home and family

32. Leah Jerop Komen: M-learning: appropriating social media for Pedagogy in

Kenya

33. Jenny Kennedy and Indigo Holcombe-James: Digital inclusion and domestication

Biography

Maren Hartmann is a Professor of Communication and Media Sociology at Berlin University for the Arts, Germany.