The Domestication of New Technologies as a Set of Trials

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ID8092910
AutoresT K Lehtonen (0000-0002-6063-2056, University of Helsinki, autor correspondente), Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen (University of Helsinki)
Ano2003
Volume3
Fascículo3
Páginas363-385
Data de publicação2003-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Consumer Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1469-5405 • E-ISSN: 1741-2900
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14695405030033014
OpenAlexW2135520736
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas45
Referências citadas15

This article examines the domestication of technologies by following different phases of adoption. These phases are studied as a set of trials in which the capabilities of humans and non-humans are tested in many ways. I will begin the article by investigating the period in which interest in a piece of technology is slowly aroused. This involves the collective assessment of the ‘need’ for an object and, before an actual acquisition is made, consultations with friends and relatives who can act as ‘warm specialists’. Next, I analyse the initial period of living with new technology: the way the technology in question needs to be fitted into pre-existing technological and human relationships. Finally, I examine the ways in which a technology that has become an integral part of everyday lifeslowly becomes less and less present until, at last, it seems to have been done away with. As a whole, the set of trials forms a general process of domestication whereby new user knowledge is created and the moral order of the household is negotiated recurrently

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