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The Leaky Home: Conceptualising the Remote Control of Smart Technologies in the Domestic Sphere

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Title: The Leaky Home: Conceptualising the Remote Control of Smart Technologies in the Domestic Sphere
Authors: Søilen, Karen Louise Grova, Veel, Kristin
Contributors: Lund University, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Departments, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Division of ALM, Digital Cultures and Publishing Studies, Information Studies, Lunds universitet, Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna, Institutioner, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap, Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, Originator
Source: Theory, Culture and Society. 42(2):65-80
Subject Terms: Humanities and the Arts, Other Humanities, Cultural Studies, Humaniora och konst, Annan humaniora och konst, Kulturstudier, Social Sciences, Media and Communications, Information Studies, Samhällsvetenskap, Medie, kommunikations, och informationsvetenskaper, Biblioteks-och informationsvetenskap
Description: Today many homes are accessible from afar, with mobile phones functioning as remote controls for technologies within the home. In this article we propose the ‘leaky home’ as a conceptual figure to understand how automated homes that leak through connected devices and sensors that collect, transmit, receive and share data are experienced and sensed by bodies within these distributed spaces. The leak brings together postmodern metaphors of fluidity and the 21st century discourse of information leaks, while maintaining infrastructural connotations of substances that shift domain in very tangible ways. By looking at a series of examples from media accounts and research conducted in Denmark, the UK, the USA and Australia, ranging from everyday family practices to digital coercive control, we explore how the care-control complex of the home is impacted by its leaky nature.
Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764241281871
Database: SwePub
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Abstract:Today many homes are accessible from afar, with mobile phones functioning as remote controls for technologies within the home. In this article we propose the ‘leaky home’ as a conceptual figure to understand how automated homes that leak through connected devices and sensors that collect, transmit, receive and share data are experienced and sensed by bodies within these distributed spaces. The leak brings together postmodern metaphors of fluidity and the 21st century discourse of information leaks, while maintaining infrastructural connotations of substances that shift domain in very tangible ways. By looking at a series of examples from media accounts and research conducted in Denmark, the UK, the USA and Australia, ranging from everyday family practices to digital coercive control, we explore how the care-control complex of the home is impacted by its leaky nature.
ISSN:14603616
DOI:10.1177/02632764241281871