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This book provides an overview of a key concept in media and technology studies: domestication. Theories around domestication shed light upon the process in which a technology changes its status from outrageous novelty to an aspect of everyday life which is taken for granted. The contributors collect past, current and future applications of the concept of domestication, critically reflect on its theoretical legacy, and offer comments about further development.

The first part of Domestication of Media and Technology provides an overview of the conceptual development and theory of domestication. In the second part of the book, contributors look at a diverse range of empirical studies that use the domestication approach to examine the dynamics between users and technologies. These studies include:

  • Mobile information and communications techologies (ICTs) and the transformation of the relationship between private and the public spheres
  • Home-based internet use: the

    Table of Contents

    1. Introduction

    Part I. Updating domestication: Theory and its history

    2. What’s ‘home’ got to do with it? Contradictory dynamics in the domestication of technology and the dislocation of domesticity

    3. Domestication: the enactment of technology

    4. Domestication running wild. From the moral economy of the household to the mores of a culture

    5. The triple articulation of ICTs. Media as technological objects, symbolic environments and individual texts

    6. Empirical studies using the domestication framework

    II. Applying domestication: Empirical work <

    7. “Fitting the internet into our lives” IT courses for disadvantaged users

    8. The bald guy just ate an orange. Domestication, work and home

    9. Making a ‘home’. The domestication of Information and Communication Technologies in single parents’ households

    10. From cultural to information revolution. ICT domestication by middle-class Chinese families

    11. Domestication at work in small businesses

    III. Outlook

    12. Domesticating domestication. Reflections on the life of a concept

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      Publisher: Open University Press
      Publication Date: 16/12/2005
      ISBN13: 9780335217687, 978-0335217687
      ISBN10: 335217680
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book provides an overview of a key concept in media and technology studies: domestication. Theories around domestication shed light upon the process in which a technology changes its status from outrageous novelty to an aspect of everyday life which is taken for granted. The contributors collect past, current and future applications of the concept of domestication, critically reflect on its theoretical legacy, and offer comments about further development.

      The first part of Domestication of Media and Technology provides an overview of the conceptual development and theory of domestication. In the second part of the book, contributors look at a diverse range of empirical studies that use the domestication approach to examine the dynamics between users and technologies. These studies include:

      • Mobile information and communications techologies (ICTs) and the transformation of the relationship between private and the public spheres
      • Home-based internet use: the

        Table of Contents

        1. Introduction

        Part I. Updating domestication: Theory and its history

        2. What’s ‘home’ got to do with it? Contradictory dynamics in the domestication of technology and the dislocation of domesticity

        3. Domestication: the enactment of technology

        4. Domestication running wild. From the moral economy of the household to the mores of a culture

        5. The triple articulation of ICTs. Media as technological objects, symbolic environments and individual texts

        6. Empirical studies using the domestication framework

        II. Applying domestication: Empirical work <

        7. “Fitting the internet into our lives” IT courses for disadvantaged users

        8. The bald guy just ate an orange. Domestication, work and home

        9. Making a ‘home’. The domestication of Information and Communication Technologies in single parents’ households

        10. From cultural to information revolution. ICT domestication by middle-class Chinese families

        11. Domestication at work in small businesses

        III. Outlook

        12. Domesticating domestication. Reflections on the life of a concept

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