Det smarta hemmets mundanisering

Robert Willim

Det smarta hemmets mundanisering

Robert Willim

Division of ALM, Digital Cultures and Publishing Studies

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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.

Original language	Swedish
Pages (from-to)	75-79
Journal	Kulturella perspektiv
Volume	29
Issue number	4
Publication status	Published - 2020

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Ethnology

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1 Web publication/Blog post

Mundania: Obscured by Everyday Life
Willim, R., 2020, The Mundania Files.
Research output: Other contribution › Web publication/Blog post › Research

Open Access

2 Finished

Connected Homes and Distant Infrastructures - An Ethnological Study of Networked Domestic Technology and Imaginaries of Pervasive Digitalisation
Willim, R. (PI)
Swedish Research Council
2018/01/01 → 2023/12/31
Project: Research
Digital Cultures Research Node
Enevold Duncan, J. (Project coordinator), Willim, R. (Researcher), Petersén, M. (Researcher), Kärrholm, S. (Researcher), Sundin, O. (Researcher), Andersson, C. (Researcher), Haider, J. (Researcher), Groth, S. K. (Researcher), Carlsson, H. (Researcher), Hanell, F. (Researcher), Olsson Dahlquist, L. (Researcher), Olsson, T. (Researcher), Askander, M. (Researcher), Tanderup Linkis, S. (Researcher), Arvidson, M. (Researcher), Pedersen, A. H. (Researcher), Lundblad, K. (Researcher), Lee-Morrison, L. (Researcher), Hansson, K. (Researcher) & Persson, D. (Researcher)
2015/01/01 → 2023/12/31
Project: Network

The Folklife Archives with the Scania Music Collections
Gustavsson, K. (Manager)
Folklife Archives
Infrastructure

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Det smarta hemmets mundanisering

Abstract

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Research output

Mundania: Obscured by Everyday Life

Projects

Connected Homes and Distant Infrastructures - An Ethnological Study of Networked Domestic Technology and Imaginaries of Pervasive Digitalisation

Digital Cultures Research Node

Equipment

The Folklife Archives with the Scania Music Collections

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