Mediatisation's Tensions and Tendencies: The Context of Homes, Householders and Emerging Screen Interactions

Chambers, D

doi:10.4324/9781003324591-12

Mediatisation's Tensions and Tendencies: The Context of Homes, Householders and Emerging Screen Interactions

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the home and householders as a demarcated but fluid field to attend to some of the inconsistencies and strengths of mediatisation. The notion of a "mediatised home" may be approached in terms of velocities and degrees of media's integration into home life. Equally, domestic mediatisation concerns how emerging media technologies and symbolic systems transform householders' micro-modes of remote communication to sustain work, education, caregiving, informal socializing, and entertainment from home. This is illustrated by the intensified household reliance on new screen technologies such as Zoom during COVID 19 lockdown conditions. The pandemic lends urgency to an enquiry into productive approaches, concepts and methods for academic considerations of the mediatisation of home and the domestic mediatisation of householders' interpersonal exchanges beyond home.