Changing Media, Homes and Households: Cultures, technologies and meanings

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Changing media, homes and households- Front Cover Changing media, homes and households Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Media households Types of media engagement in the home The mediatisation of the home Media imaginaries Organisation of the book and overview of chapters Chapter 2: Early television Introduction The social need for television Designing media for the home Family, nation and visions of progress The domestication of television programming Domesticity, progress and portable TV From communal to individual viewing Conclusion Chapter 3: The domestication of media technology Introduction The domestication of media technologies approach Early domestication research of the 1990s Domestication research from 2006 Domestication and mediatisation Conclusion Chapter 4: Mediatised childhoods and media parenting Introduction Patterns of domestic media use by children Children’s media-oriented bedrooms Media socialisation and media risks Media parenting strategies Children’s media literacy and commercial media Conclusion Chapter 5: From arcade to family-centred video gaming Introduction Aspirations towards inter-generational family gaming From arcade to home: the design of video gaming for the home Gender differences among domestic video console users The launch of family-centred video gaming Emerging patterns and dynamics of family gaming Conclusion Chapter 6: Touchscreen homes and the domestication of the computer tablet Introduction The growth in touchscreen media Tablet advertisements: from cosmopolitan mobility to familial and domestic imagery Touchscreen technologies, family dynamics and multi-screen homes Conclusion Chapter 7: Home, media and migration Introduction Transnational uses of communication technologies The role of media content within transnational identities Children, migration and media Family albums, the migrant gaze and domestication of public places Conclusion Chapter 8: Homes of the future: from smart homes to connected homes Introduction Homes of tomorrow Smart homes of the 1980s and 1990s Today’s digitally automated ‘connected home’ Tensions between work, leisure and domestic responsibilities Conclusion Chapter 9: The mediatised home Introduction Media imaginaries of domesticity The commercialisation of domestic media technologies Privacy and domestic media surveillance Index