The Routledge Handbook of Media and Technology Domestication

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.

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

"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