The Home as a Multimedia Environment: Families’ Conception of Space and the Introduction of Information and Communication Technologies in the Home

Rompaey, Veerle Van; Roe, Keith

doi:10.1515/comm.2001.26.4.351

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“…Taking a different approach to how computers may alter the family, Van-Rompaey and Roe (2001;in press) examine how the arrival of a new medium such as the personal computer prompts the re-arrangement of domestic space and time. The family timetable for meals, or television viewing, or homework may shift, as do physical arrangements of shared and private spaces, leisure and work spaces within the home (Livingstone, 2002).…”

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Strategies of parental regulation in the media-rich home

Livingstone

2007

Computers in Human Behavior

148

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This document is the author's final manuscript version of the journal article, incorporating any revisions agreed during the peer review process. Some differences between this version and the publisher's version remain. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. 2 Abstract This paper investigates practices of domestic regulation of media within the family, focusing on parental attempts to manage children's access to and use of new media, while also recognising that these have consequences for children's attempts to manage their own access to and use of media, even if this means tactics to evade parental control. Theoretically, the paper seeks to integrate the specific literature on domestic rules and regulation of media use with the broader literature on the rules and roles in social situations, arguing that parental strategies in relation to domestic media reveal both the enactment of and the negotiations over the typically informal and implicit rules and roles in family life. These issues are explored using data from two surveys: (1) the 'Young People, New Media' project surveyed 1300 children and their parents, examining the social, relational and contextual factors that shape the ways in which families develop rules for managing the introduction of the personal computer and the multiplication of television sets, among other new media changes, in the home; (2) the 'UK Children Go Online' project surveyed 1500 children and their parents, updating the picture by examining the introduction of the internet into the family home. On the basis of these data, it is argued that despite the 'newness' of media as they successively arrive in the home, there are considerable consistencies over time in the responses of families, it being the slow-to-change relations between parents and children that shape patterns of domestic regulation and use. KeywordsNew media Parental mediation Children Television Personal computer Internet Social situations 3 New media in the family homeA family eats supper in front of the television, laughing at shared jokes, arguing over who holds the remote control, comfortable on the sofa together. A teenage girl argues with her parents over which video she and her friends are allowed to watch at a forthcoming sleepover party, resulting in her slamming her bedroom door and turning on some loud music. A mother and father cannot decide where to put the new computer in their already-crowded home -does it go best in the living room or their son's bedroom, and what difference will this make to family life? As each new medium successively arrives in the home (radio, television, games machines, personal computer, internet, mobile phone), it attracts widespread public attention, sometimes excited, sometimes anxious. This is expressed in the national media, in political and community fora and, the focus of this article, the attitudes and practices in the home among family members.If the personal computer and its associated innovations (multimedia, digitisation, interact...

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Section: Consequences Of Domestic Regulation Of Media Usementioning

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Strategies of parental regulation in the media-rich home

Livingstone

2007

Computers in Human Behavior

148

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“…Hence, using mobile media has changed the character of the home more than the implementation of the desktop personal computer (PC; see Bakardjieva, 2005: 137–164), as all rooms become spaces where domestic activities and media use are intermingled. As the ‘physical space’ of the home is now interwoven with plenty of ‘symbolic spaces’ (Rompaey and Roe, 2001: 365), it contains several capsules for separating from domestic life. Furthermore, the meaning of specific rooms, such as the kitchen or bathroom, becomes more comprehensive as their narrowly defined purposes are extended by media use.…”

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Beyond classic mass media and stand-alone technologies: Using media online in the domestic sphere

Müller

2020

European Journal of Communication

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This article discusses why households in Germany use the Internet and content distributed online instead of classic broadcasting or a printed paper for customising ideal media repertoires that match with their media-related interests in the domestic sphere. Following the domestication approach, home is understood as a relevant field for research on online-based media use because it is the place where people traditionally negotiate the meaning of media technologies and content against the background of an existing media repertoire. The article refers to empirical findings from qualitative ethnographic research on 16 German households. It was undertaken between 2015 and 2017. In summarising, the empirical research emphasises three distinct reasons why people choose the Internet for domestic media reception over classic mass media: a better integration of media use in everyday life, particular demands and interests in specific content, and the politics of identity and the moral economy of the household.

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“…Como en el caso de la radio, ahora los miembros de la familia se reúnen en pocas ocasiones alrededor del TV, éste queda, según nos cuentan, para los eventos de actualidad, las noticias y ver un partido de fútbol en directo, y en pocas ocasiones más. Este cambio es cualitativamente diferente al producido por la proliferación de los aparatos de TV que transformó el hogar en compartimentos de experiencias diferenciadas (Rompaey & Roe, 2004) e incrementó las diferencias entre los miembros de la familia (Livingstone, 2004(Livingstone, , 2007. La transformación actual es cualitativamente diferente a la producida por la proliferación la televisión en el hogar, la televisión, si éste transformó el hogar en compartimentos de experiencias diferenciadas (Rompaey & Roe, 2004), mejorando así las diferencias entre las experiencias de los familiares (Livingstone, 2004(Livingstone, , 2007.…”

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