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

Søilen, Karen Louise Grova LU orcid and Veel, Kristin (2025) In Theory, Culture and Society 42(2). p.65-80
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... (More)
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. (Less)
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smart homes, tech abuse, Conceptualisation, surveillance, leaky, control
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Theory, Culture and Society
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42
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2
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16 pages
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SAGE Publications
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  • scopus:85208024122
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1460-3616
DOI
10.1177/02632764241281871
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Home Control
Digital vold i hjemmet - en undersøgelse af udbredelsen af brugen af delte digitale enheder til psykisk vold og chikane
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English
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