The Meaning of Home in the Context of Digitization, Mobilization and Mediatization

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

“…In summarising, the empirical research emphasises that both shared and individual practices that are facilitated by technological potentials and specific content foster the use of the Internet for domestic media reception. First, similar to television (Morley, 1986) and the Internet generally (Bakardjieva, 2005;Peil and Röser, 2014), using the Internet for media reception is based on the rationale of the domestic everyday life of couples. Content distributed online can be better integrated into the rhythms of living together, because the Internet and especially mobile online-capable technologies offer options that allow one to integrate media use into small temporal snippets and use media content on demand.…”

“…Such reconstructions succeed empirically primarily in defined fields, for example, the domestic sphere. It is a decisive context of media consumption and selectivity which is mediatised through a broad spectrum of online-capable media (Peil and Röser, 2014). Furthermore, the majority of leisure-oriented media use takes place at home (Chambers, 2016: 6-7), where media users refer to a 'complex media repertoire' (Haddon, 2016), which is, nevertheless, 'a reduced set of possibilities' of media compared to 'the many-dimensional media universe' (Couldry and Hepp, 2017: 56).…”

Mediatisierungs- und Domestizierungsansatz: Geschlecht im mediatisierten Zuhause

“…Schon Radio und Fernsehen, aber eben auch Computer und Internet sowie deren zahlreiche End-und Peripheriegeräte haben sich erst im Zuge der Integration in den häuslichen Kontext massenhaft verbreitet (Röser 2007;Röser und Peil 2010). Sogar mobile Technologien wie das Smartphone werden zu einem ganz wesentlichen Teil innerhalb des Zuhauses angeeignet, wodurch sich seit einigen Jahren abermals häusliche Kommunikationskulturen tief greifend verändern (Peil und Röser 2014…”

“…Peil und Röser 2014;Silverstone 2006). Der Ansatz nimmt die häusliche Sphäre als Kontext des Medienhandelns aneignungsorientiert in den Blick.…”

Media and basic desires: An approach to measuring the mediatization of daily human life

“…There seems to be consensus around the idea of mediatization as a process of change, a temporal expansion; yet few studies have approached mediatization empirically from such a perspective. While qualitative studies have provided rich and varied pictures of how media saturate specific parts of everyday life, they neither suffice to substantiate claims regarding change, that is, growing media reliance (for an example of a panel study, though, see Peil and Röser, 2014), nor provide an overview of which dimensions of daily life such changes affect. Furthermore, qualitative studies cannot empirically validate variations within a broader population and thus fail to grasp which underlying factors condition experiences of growing media reliance.…”