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Det smarta hemmets mundanisering

Willim, Robert LU orcid (2020) In Kulturella perspektiv 29(4). p.75-79
Abstract
The smart home around 2020 is based on interconnected software equipped things that through automation are supposed to deliver new pleasures and conveniences. This technological makeover of domestic settings is characterised by consumption of things that are promoted as novel and spectacular. If successful, these things are then gradually transformed into ignored infrastructure, into paraphernalia of routinised everyday life. This is a pro- cess of mundanisation, through which complex technologies are seldom domesticated. Instead they are integrated in everyday life while still be- ing incomprehensible and beyond control. I illus- trate this process with examples from a smart lighting system.
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mundanisering, infrastruktur, digitala, smarta hem
in
Kulturella perspektiv
volume
29
issue
4
pages
75 - 79
publisher
Föreningen Kulturella perspektiv
ISSN
1102-7908
project
Connected Homes and Distant Infrastructures - An Ethnological Study of Networked Domestic Technology and Imaginaries of Pervasive Digitalisation
Digital Cultures Research Node
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Swedish
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yes
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0eb979a8-7efd-492d-8962-e634534727fb
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2021-01-04 10:49:07
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