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At Home with Digital Media

A symposium hosted by QUT Digital Media Research Centre (@qutdmrc 
<http://twitter.com/qutdmrc>)

2-3 November 2017

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

http://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/


         Background

In /Television: Technology and Cultural Form/ (1974), Raymond Williams 
coined the term ‘mobile privatisation’ to describe the experience of the 
private home as an increasingly technologised space. Since the 1920s, he 
argued, new technological ‘gadgets’ that improved domestic efficiency, 
new options in private transport to take people to and from their homes, 
and new media, such as the radio, which brought news and entertainment 
into the home have fostered an ‘at-once mobile and home-centred way of 
living’. Throughout the late twentieth century, family television 
consumption practices and the domestication of new media technologies 
were regular topics for media, communication and cultural studies. In 
the early 21st century, the rise of smartphones and the turn to mobile 
media led to a focus on the convergence of intimate forms of 
communication with the presence of digital media in more public spaces, 
such as the city and the street.

There is a resurgence of interest in the home in digital media research, 
and for good reason: the digitally mediated home is the site of 
household politics including intergenerational conflict and anxiety; it 
is a key factor in the economics of digital inclusion; and it is at the 
centre of a significant intensification of digital media technologies in 
everyday life. Taking the concept of ‘home’ less literally, 
domestication–the process of bringing new technologies home, making 
sense of them, and finding new uses for them–is  a key part of the 
innovation and embedding process; it is also how new the cultural logics 
of new technologies become normalised and entangled with our work, our 
leisure, our intimate relationships, and our daily routines.

Mobile technologies create complex flows of social relationships, 
personal and public communication, across the boundaries of work and 
home, private and public space. At the same time, the particularities of 
material spaces within homes offer diverse geographies of media 
production, consumption, and entrepreneurship: teenage bedrooms, 
kitchens and garages are the sites of cultural innovation, from new 
forms of storytelling to games and software development. And intertwined 
with the metaphors of comfort and enclosure, are less pleasant realities 
– homes are not always safe; and digital media can be implicated in 
household conflict and domestic violence.

This symposium will feature a range of national and international 
scholarship on the changing relationships between digital media 
technologies and the home – as space, as place, and as a troubled 
metaphor for belonging.


         Possible Themes

   * Smart homes and digital living: assistive technologies; the internet
     of things (aka the internet of shit
     <https://twitter.com/internetofshit?lang=en>); AIs and automation;
     pet wearables; contemporary and retro-futuristic representations of
     the digitally enabled home; new frontiers for direct marketing (e.g.
     Unruly and News Corp’s The Home

<http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/campaign-tv-unruly-launches-2000-sq-ft-connected-home/1433520>)
   * Digital inclusion: digital technologies in the household economy;
     digital ability, agency and control in the household; digital media
     use in rural and remote homes.
   * Place, space and mobilities: the domestic and mobile geographies of
     media use and production; the mediatization of family spaces;
     digital media as a tool for regulating and governing household space
     and time
   * Media consumption, production and audience practices: kids and the
     ‘screen time’ debate; connected and multi-screen family viewing;
     work-life balance; the internet of toys; ‘let’s play’ and unboxing
     videos; vernacular creativity and mundane media.
   * Learning at home through digital media: early literacies and digital
     media; learning technologies; the home as a node in connected
     learning ecologies; social media entertainment, digital games and
     learning; maker culture


         Submission process and key dates

Please submit paper proposals to Michael Dezuanni <(m.dezuanni /at/ qut.edu.au) 
<mailto:(m.dezuanni /at/ qut.edu.au)>> by 30 June 2017.

Proposals should include an abstract of 250–400 words along with a brief 
bio of no more than 100 words.

Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 10 July 2017.

Draft papers (3000–4000 words) of accepted presentations are to be 
submitted by 13 October 2017 for sharing and discussion among symposium 
participants.

Please note that there will be no registration fees for this event, and 
daytime catering will be provided; however participants will be 
responsible for funding and arranging travel and accommodation if required.


         Organisers

Michael Dezuanni <https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/people/michael-dezuanni/>

Jean Burgess <https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/people/jean-burgess/>

Peta Mitchell <https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/people/peta-mitchell/>



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