Martin Hand
Biographic Data
| ID | 281158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Hand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hand |
| SIGNATURE | HAND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3743-9706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Introduction: The Politics and Practices of Computational Seeing
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMartin HandMartin Hand is Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada. He writes about the unintended social and cultural consequences of digitization in everyday life. He is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief for the 3-volume Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Visual Culture (scheduled 2025). His publications include Big Data?…
Bauman: A Biography
Recalibrating Daily Life: Synchronizing, Coordinating, and Scheduling Through Smartphones
"This paper examines individual framings and experiences of temporal management via smartphone applications. It asks: to what extent and in what ways do configurations of smartphones and scheduling applications intervene in and restructure the temporality of practices and people’s experiences of time? The paper draws upon in-depth semi-structured interview material with (a) professional urban and suburban householders (N=25), (b) individuals tran…
Visuality in Social Media: Researching Images, Circulations and Practices
Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity
Many people in the West or global North now live in a culture of 24/7 instant messaging, iPods and MP3s, streamed content, blogs, ubiquitous digital images and Facebook. But they are also surrounded by even more paper, books, telephone calls and material objects of one kind or another. The juxtaposition and proliferation of older and newer technologies is striking. Making Digital Cultures brings together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' wit…
Big Data? Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research
This volume seeks to address the emerging relationships between qualitative research and digital data. At the present time, ubiquitous digital data is altering the foci of research, the contexts in which research takes place, and the methods and tools available for qualitative research. Alongside new challenges and opportunities, there are many ways in which established qualitative methods are being used to situate and interpret digital phenomena…
Big Data: Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research
From Cyberspace to the Dataverse: Trajectories in Digital Social Research
Purpose To outline the current trajectories in digital social research and to highlight the roles of qualitative research in those trajectories
Jose Marichal, Facebook Democracy: The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life
Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity
Many people in the West or global North now live in a culture of 24/7 instant messaging, iPods and MP3s, streamed content, blogs, ubiquitous digital images and Facebook. But they are also surrounded by even more paper, books, telephone calls and material objects of one kind or another. The juxtaposition and proliferation of older and newer technologies is striking. Making Digital Cultures brings together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' wit…
The Design of Everyday Life
How do common household items such as basic plastic house wares or high-tech digital cameras transform our daily lives? The Design of Everyday Life considers this question in detail, from the design of products through to their use in the home. Drawing on interviews with consumers themselves, the authors look at how everyday objects, ranging from screwdrivers to photo management software, are used on a practical level. Closely investigating the d…
Condensing Practices: Ways of living with a freezer
In the UK, the majority of households have a freezer and by most criteria it would be fair to say that home freezing and frozen food provisioning reached sociotechnical ‘closure’ some 20 years ago or more. Detailed examination of how people actually live with freezers suggests, by contrast, that associated consumption practices and processes are varied, unstable and subject to change. Interviews with representatives of 40 households provide new i…
Home Extensions in the United Kingdom: Space, Time, and Practice
This paper begins with two observations: that UK homes appear to have accumulated increasing numbers of domestic technologies, yet new houses are smaller, on average, than those built before 1980. The spatial pressures placed on homes that result from the accumulation of technologies are explored by drawing upon forty household interviews which enquired into the domestic organisation of kitchen and bathroom technologies and practices. Many househ…
Ubiquitous Surveillance: Interview with Katherine Hayles
The people's network: Self-education and empowerment in the public library
This article explores perceptions of Internet access in UK public libraries within government policy, by librarians, and by library users, in the broader context of government/citizen intermediation. Predominantly theoretical, it focuses upon how discourses of self-education and empowerment have come to position Internet access within this domain in different ways. Public libraries are significant here because: (1) within policy circles, public l…
Explaining Showering: A Discussion of the Material, Conventional, and Temporal Dimensions of Practice
This article considers the increasing popularity of showering in the UK. We use this case as a means of exploring some of the dimensions and dynamics of everyday practice. Drawing upon a range of documentary evidence, we begin by sketching three possible explanations for the current constitution of showering as a private, increasingly resource-intensive routine. We begin by reviewing the changing infrastructural, technological, rhetorical and mor…
Orchestrating Concepts: Kitchen Dynamics and Regime Change in Good Housekeeping and Ideal Home , 1922–2002
It has long been recognized that users and consumers actively appropriate new products and technologies and assimilate them into existing regimes and frames of reference. Much less has been written about how these frames evolve or about how processes of integration and appropriation are sustained and transformed. In this article we analyze “the kitchen” not as a place but as an “orchestrating concept.” We subject “orchestrating concept.” We subje…
E-Topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel: On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism
We present a critical appraisal of the impact of the Internet (and related information technologies) upon processes of democratization and de-democratization in contemporary society. We review accounts of 'the information revolution' as these have become polarized into mutually exclusive rhetorics of future cosmopolitan or citadellian e-topias. We question the Manichean assumptions common to both rhetorics: particularly the fetishism of informati…
E-topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel: On the Democratizing and De-democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, Toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism
Explaining Showering: A Discussion of the Material, Conventional, and Temporal Dimensions of Practice
This article considers the increasing popularity of showering in the UK. We use this case as a means of exploring some of the dimensions and dynamics of everyday practice. Drawing upon a range of documentary evidence, we begin by sketching three possible explanations for the current constitution of showering as a private, increasingly resource-intensive routine. We begin by reviewing the changing infrastructural, technological, rhetorical and mor…
Condensing Practices: Ways of living with a freezer
In the UK, the majority of households have a freezer and by most criteria it would be fair to say that home freezing and frozen food provisioning reached sociotechnical ‘closure’ some 20 years ago or more. Detailed examination of how people actually live with freezers suggests, by contrast, that associated consumption practices and processes are varied, unstable and subject to change. Interviews with representatives of 40 households provide new i…
Home Extensions in the United Kingdom: Space, Time, and Practice
This paper begins with two observations: that UK homes appear to have accumulated increasing numbers of domestic technologies, yet new houses are smaller, on average, than those built before 1980. The spatial pressures placed on homes that result from the accumulation of technologies are explored by drawing upon forty household interviews which enquired into the domestic organisation of kitchen and bathroom technologies and practices. Many househ…
Orchestrating Concepts: Kitchen Dynamics and Regime Change in Good Housekeeping and Ideal Home , 1922–2002
It has long been recognized that users and consumers actively appropriate new products and technologies and assimilate them into existing regimes and frames of reference. Much less has been written about how these frames evolve or about how processes of integration and appropriation are sustained and transformed. In this article we analyze “the kitchen” not as a place but as an “orchestrating concept.” We subject “orchestrating concept.” We subje…
E-Topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel: On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism
We present a critical appraisal of the impact of the Internet (and related information technologies) upon processes of democratization and de-democratization in contemporary society. We review accounts of 'the information revolution' as these have become polarized into mutually exclusive rhetorics of future cosmopolitan or citadellian e-topias. We question the Manichean assumptions common to both rhetorics: particularly the fetishism of informati…
Ubiquitous Surveillance: Interview with Katherine Hayles
E-topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel: On the Democratizing and De-democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, Toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism
Introduction: The Politics and Practices of Computational Seeing
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMartin HandMartin Hand is Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada. He writes about the unintended social and cultural consequences of digitization in everyday life. He is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief for the 3-volume Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Visual Culture (scheduled 2025). His publications include Big Data?…
E-Topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel: On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism
We present a critical appraisal of the impact of the Internet (and related information technologies) upon processes of democratization and de-democratization in contemporary society. We review accounts of 'the information revolution' as these have become polarized into mutually exclusive rhetorics of future cosmopolitan or citadellian e-topias. We question the Manichean assumptions common to both rhetorics: particularly the fetishism of informati…
E-topia as Cosmopolis or Citadel: On the Democratizing and De-democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, Toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism
Orchestrating Concepts: Kitchen Dynamics and Regime Change in Good Housekeeping and Ideal Home , 1922–2002
It has long been recognized that users and consumers actively appropriate new products and technologies and assimilate them into existing regimes and frames of reference. Much less has been written about how these frames evolve or about how processes of integration and appropriation are sustained and transformed. In this article we analyze “the kitchen” not as a place but as an “orchestrating concept.” We subject “orchestrating concept.” We subje…
The people's network: Self-education and empowerment in the public library
This article explores perceptions of Internet access in UK public libraries within government policy, by librarians, and by library users, in the broader context of government/citizen intermediation. Predominantly theoretical, it focuses upon how discourses of self-education and empowerment have come to position Internet access within this domain in different ways. Public libraries are significant here because: (1) within policy circles, public l…
Explaining Showering: A Discussion of the Material, Conventional, and Temporal Dimensions of Practice
This article considers the increasing popularity of showering in the UK. We use this case as a means of exploring some of the dimensions and dynamics of everyday practice. Drawing upon a range of documentary evidence, we begin by sketching three possible explanations for the current constitution of showering as a private, increasingly resource-intensive routine. We begin by reviewing the changing infrastructural, technological, rhetorical and mor…
The Design of Everyday Life
How do common household items such as basic plastic house wares or high-tech digital cameras transform our daily lives? The Design of Everyday Life considers this question in detail, from the design of products through to their use in the home. Drawing on interviews with consumers themselves, the authors look at how everyday objects, ranging from screwdrivers to photo management software, are used on a practical level. Closely investigating the d…
Condensing Practices: Ways of living with a freezer
In the UK, the majority of households have a freezer and by most criteria it would be fair to say that home freezing and frozen food provisioning reached sociotechnical ‘closure’ some 20 years ago or more. Detailed examination of how people actually live with freezers suggests, by contrast, that associated consumption practices and processes are varied, unstable and subject to change. Interviews with representatives of 40 households provide new i…
Home Extensions in the United Kingdom: Space, Time, and Practice
This paper begins with two observations: that UK homes appear to have accumulated increasing numbers of domestic technologies, yet new houses are smaller, on average, than those built before 1980. The spatial pressures placed on homes that result from the accumulation of technologies are explored by drawing upon forty household interviews which enquired into the domestic organisation of kitchen and bathroom technologies and practices. Many househ…
Ubiquitous Surveillance: Interview with Katherine Hayles
Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity
Many people in the West or global North now live in a culture of 24/7 instant messaging, iPods and MP3s, streamed content, blogs, ubiquitous digital images and Facebook. But they are also surrounded by even more paper, books, telephone calls and material objects of one kind or another. The juxtaposition and proliferation of older and newer technologies is striking. Making Digital Cultures brings together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' wit…
Jose Marichal, Facebook Democracy: The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life
Big Data? Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research
This volume seeks to address the emerging relationships between qualitative research and digital data. At the present time, ubiquitous digital data is altering the foci of research, the contexts in which research takes place, and the methods and tools available for qualitative research. Alongside new challenges and opportunities, there are many ways in which established qualitative methods are being used to situate and interpret digital phenomena…
Big Data: Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research
From Cyberspace to the Dataverse: Trajectories in Digital Social Research
Purpose To outline the current trajectories in digital social research and to highlight the roles of qualitative research in those trajectories
Visuality in Social Media: Researching Images, Circulations and Practices
Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity
Many people in the West or global North now live in a culture of 24/7 instant messaging, iPods and MP3s, streamed content, blogs, ubiquitous digital images and Facebook. But they are also surrounded by even more paper, books, telephone calls and material objects of one kind or another. The juxtaposition and proliferation of older and newer technologies is striking. Making Digital Cultures brings together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' wit…
Recalibrating Daily Life: Synchronizing, Coordinating, and Scheduling Through Smartphones
"This paper examines individual framings and experiences of temporal management via smartphone applications. It asks: to what extent and in what ways do configurations of smartphones and scheduling applications intervene in and restructure the temporality of practices and people’s experiences of time? The paper draws upon in-depth semi-structured interview material with (a) professional urban and suburban householders (N=25), (b) individuals tran…
Bauman: A Biography
Introduction: The Politics and Practices of Computational Seeing
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMartin HandMartin Hand is Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada. He writes about the unintended social and cultural consequences of digitization in everyday life. He is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief for the 3-volume Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Visual Culture (scheduled 2025). His publications include Big Data?…
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