Digital domesticity : media, materiality, and home life / Jenny Kennedy [et al.]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Jenny (Postdoctoral researcher), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home automation--Social aspects.

Home automation.

Home economics--Technological innovations.

Home economics.

Human-computer interaction--Social aspects.

Human-computer interaction.

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

While the home provides a necessary anchor point for our empirical and theoretical work, we are well aware that the home is not self-contained but is a node in multiple commercial, cultural, and technical networks, all of which interact, and all of which have local implications and global reach. The home's socio-technical ecology operates in recursive relations with these much larger ecologies, none of which can be ignored if the home is to be understood. This book unearths this digital domesticity through accounts of evolving socio-technical relations as they unfold in processes of adopting and adapting to innovations; using, maintaining, and neglecting the complex of technologies in the home; and confronting the obsolescence of particular technologies and failure of systems of consumer technologies.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-090581-6

0-19-090582-4

0-19-090580-8