Digital Domesticity: Media, Materiality, and Home Life

Kennedy, Jenny

Arnold, Michael

Gibbs, Martin

Nansen, Bjorn

Wilken, Rowan

Computers & Technology

Oxford University Press

At the turn of the twenty-first century, typical households were equipped with a landline telephone, a desktop computer connected to a dial-up modem, and a shared television set. Television, radio and newspapers were the dominant mass media. Today, homes are now network hubs for all manner ofdigital technologies, from mobile devices littering lounge rooms to Bluetooth toothbrushes in bathrooms--and tomorrow, these too will be replaced with objects once inconceivable.Tracing the origins of these digital developments, Jenny Kennedy, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen, and Rowan Wilken advance media domestication research through an ecology-based approach to the abundance and materiality of media in the home. The book locates digital domesticity throughphases of adoption and dwelling, to management and housekeeping, to obsolescence and disposal. The authors synthesize household interviews, technology tours, remote data collection via mobile applications, and more to offer readers groundbreaking insight into domestic media consumption. Chapters useoriginal case studies to empirically trace the adoption, use, and disposal of technology by individuals and families within their homes. The book unearths social and material accounts of media technologies, offering insight into family negotiations regarding technology usage in such a way that putstechnology in the context of recent developments of digital infrastructure, devices, and software--all of which are now woven into the domestic fabric of the modern household.

Blessed Among Women

Gray Publishing

No city of the Middle Ages shone more brilliantly than Constantinople, capitol of the Byzantine Empire and crossroads between Russia and the Orient and all northern and western Europe. Here at last the tragic history of that forgotten emperor is chronicled in a novel as vast and varied as the city.

Against the fall of night

DOUBLEDAY

Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia–Pacific region has been pivotal in the production, shaping and consumption of personal new media technologies and through social and mobile media we can see emerging certain types of personal politics that are inflected by the local. The six case studies that inform this book―Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Singapore and Melbourne―offer a range of economic, socio-cultural, and linguistic differences, enabling the authors to provide new insights into specific issues pertaining to mobile media in each city. These include social, mobile and locative media as a form of crisis management in post 3/11 Tokyo; generational shifts in Shanghai; political discussion and the shifting social fabric in Singapore; and the erosion of public and private, and work and leisure paradigms in Melbourne. Through its striking case studies, this book sheds new light on how the region and its contested and multiple identities are evolving, and concludes by revealing the impact of mobile media on how place is shaped, as well as shaping, practices of mobility, intimacy and a sense of belonging. Employing comprehensive, cross-disciplinary frameworks from theoretical approaches such as media sociology, ethnography, cultural studies and media and communication studies, Online@AsiaPacific will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Asian culture and society, cybercultures, new media studies, communication studies and internet studies.

Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia–Pacific (Asia's Transformations/Asia.com)

Hjorth, Larissa

Reference

Routledge

32 tales…32 storytellers with a twisted mind to entice you.When you were younger, the stories told around the campfire were the best you had ever heard. The bedtime stories our elders would tell us were the ones that put us to sleep but the campfire was where you got the chills to stay up because of every sound the woods made at night. It is hard to believe in a world where things do not get creepier at night or the world does not come more to life at dusk. Where the world gets just a little unhinged in the dark. Urban Legends is a collection with some of today’s up and coming authors in the indie world. Giving you their takes on the tales they grew up with…legends of mystery, of the macabre, of horror, designed to make the hairs on your neck stand alert and your skin crawl. You know some of the stories but do you know the twisted minds of the author telling the tale? Make sure you keep the lights on…things get harder to wrap your thoughts around at the Crossroads in the Dark. TABLE OF CONTENTS:Introduction “Inclusion” by Edd SowderForeword by Kerry Alan DenneyThe Game by Kevin WimerThe Trusted by Samantha AlexandraPossession of the Hexham Heads by L. M. BarrettSite 48 by T. J. WeeksTommy’s Bend by David Owain HughesA Farmhouse Haunting by L. BachmanPump One by Richard Farren BarberThe Scarlet Cloak by Karen BovenmyerThe Yonder by R. M. WarrenForfeit Tissue by C. C. AdamsPlague by T. Joseph BrowderThe Whispering Tree by Glenn Damien CampbellSleep Tight by Brian G. MurrayThe Miners by Alice J. BlackThe Legend of Sugisawa Village by Michael ArnoldSweet Dreams by Jonathan ShipleyCemetery Mountain by Jay Michael Wright IISend in the Clowns by Kerry Alan DenneyDream Sequence by S. L. PerrineFriend Request by Frank MartinEigengrau by Michael SchutzPigman Road by W. T. WatsonThe Goatman by Mark ReefeSad Sarah by Carl AlvesUrban Legend (With a Modern Twist) by Donna Marie WestNight Hunt by L. D. RicardShadow Ink by Aziza SphinxThe King of Hollywood by MJ KobernusSlow Gurgling Under Water by Sergio PalumboThe Dark Forest by James MasterThe Spirited Children by S. L. KernsSevered Attachments by Jonathan Edward Ondrashek

Crossroads in the Dark 2: Urban Legends

Literature & Fiction

MARTIN, Frank

Hughes, David Owain

Schütz, Michael

Bovenmyer, Karen

Barber, Richard Farren

Murray, Brian G

Shipley, Jonathan

Weeks, T J

Denney, Kerry Alan

Browder, T. Joseph

Barrett, L M

Black, Alice J.

Wimer, Kevin

Alexandra, Samantha

W.T. Watson

Bachman, L.

Warren, R.M.

Adams, C.C.

Campbell, Glenn Damien

Wright 2, Jay Michael

Perrine, S.L.

Aziza Sphinx

MJ Kobernus

Kerry Alan Denney

Short Stories & Anthologies

Burning Willow Press, LLC

A Game With Dice

Non Basic Stock Line

Their Manners Noted

Biographies & Memoirs

HERON HILL BOOKS

Death and Digital Media

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book delivers fresh insight and analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and media studies. It is key reading for students and scholars in these disciplines, as well as for professionals working in bereavement support capacities.

Kohn, Tamara

Meese, James

Computer Science

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