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Title:
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TECHNOLOGIES ENTERING THE HOME THE DOMESTICATION OF MUNDANE TECHNOLOGIES |
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Author(s):
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Noora Talsi |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-76-2 |
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Editors:
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Gunilla Bradley, Diane Whitehouse and Angela Lin |
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Year:
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2012 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Science and technology studies, empirical field studies, technologies in home environment, domestication, gender, age |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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3 |
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Last Page:
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10 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Domestic spheres are filled in with technologies and new technologies are waiting to enter to our home in ever increasing pace. This entering is by no means straight forward, simple or deterministic. Several issues related to social and cultural living sphere are encountered before, during and after technologies are ready to settle our domestic sphere. This article discusses about domestication of mundane household technologies on gender and generation perspectives. The empirical data of the research is based on Finnish autobiographical writings in which people describe their technology relations i.e. technobiographies, which cover most of the 20th century. The article shows the gendered practices and divisions that are connected to domestic technologies. The article is concentrated on questioning why some technologies get domesticated and others do not and in what circumstances these domestication processes are happening? What kind of domestication processes can be found in the intersection of technology, gender and age? |
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