Short 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.

Long 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.

Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:

"One Life Is Not Enough" ? Another kind of introduction  PART I ? (Re-)thinking domestication  (Re-)thinking domestication: introduction  1. Domestication and personhood  2. Domestication as user-led infrastructuring  3. Conceptualizing re-domestication: theoretical  reflections and empirical findings to a neglected concept  4. Making domestication research policy relevant  5. A dialogue on domestication  6. The dark side of domestication? Individualization, anxieties and FoMO created by the use of media technologies  PART II ? Extending domestication  Extending domestication: introduction  7. Domesticating mobile communication by women in the Global South  8. The ceaseless domestication of mobile communication in Asia: benefits, trade-offs and responses  9. Nuanced domestication of social media: intrigues of situated cultural affordances in Kenyan local ecologies of knowledge 10. The domestication of smartphones: lessons from case studies in Africa  11. Domestication theory: reflections from the Kalahari  PART III ? Technologizing and designing domestication  Technologizing and designing domestication: introduction  12. Processes of incorporation. The relationship between socialization and domestication of technoscience  13. Sitting on the sofa, watching television: methodological reflections on the study of material articulations  14. Data domestication: exploring sensors in the future everyday through design fiction  15. A journey from domestication approaches to practice-based theories  16. The mutual domestication of users and algorithms: the case of Netflix  PART IV ? (Counter-)domesticating media and technologies  (Counter-)domesticating media and technologies: introduction  17. Domesticating the domesticators: where have all the agents gone?  18. Counter-domestication through infrastructural inversion: user empowerment in digital platforms  19. Rooflessness running wild? Taming technologies, taming our fears  20. Configuring the "Cuban Internet": a networked domestication approach  21. Feeling good, feeling safe: domesticating phones and drugs in clubbing  PART V ? Contextualising domestication?  Contextualising domestication?: introduction  22. Understanding and resolving the "content-context conundrum" in ICT domestication research  23. Situational domestication: personal technology and public places  24. The digital detox camp: practices and motivations for reverse domestication  25. Unpacking play: a domestication perspective on digital games  26. Playing at home  27. Variety within domestication research: time, perceptions and interactions  PART VI ? Homing in on domestication?  Homing in on domestication?: introduction  28. Lockdown screen worlds: the domestication and re-socialization of Zoom  29. Broken domestication: the resonant politics of voice in gendered technology  30. What do women want? Radio's gendered domestication  31. Domestication and older adults ? changing definitions of home and family  32. M-learning: appropriating social media for pedagogy in Kenya  33. Digital inclusion and domestication