Living in ‘idiotic’ homes: multisensory geographies of home in the digital context
Topics: Digital Geographies
, Feminist Geographies
, Cultural Geography
Keywords: multisensory experiences, geographies of home, smart home, the digital
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Saturday
Session Start / End Time: 2/26/2022 09:40 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/26/2022 11:00 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 31
Authors:
Chen Liu, Sun Yat-sen University
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Abstract
This presentation brings research topics on sensory geographies and geographies of home in the digital context together to provide an empirical study on the lived experiences with smart home devices which might sometimes create ‘idiotic data’. It investigates how the routinised domestic practices are digitally organised and managed and how the feelings of being at home are embodiedly significant, materially engaged and socially and affectively charged, drawing on a wider project on platform urbanism, consumer culture and everyday practices. Based on an analysis of data collected by interviews, observations and autoethnographies, the key findings of this research can develop the geographical understanding of home on material, socio-emotional, embodied and multisensory process of home-making by establishing a feeling assemblage in the digital context of home. This feeling assemblage has affectively created the domestic atmosphere by coalescing practices, materials (such as smartphones and smart home devices), apps, global and local platform capitalism, data, bodies, and domestic environments (such as light, warmth, and scent). This article argues for an embodied, affective and multisensory conceptualisation of home in the digital context and a more comprehensive understanding of how the interplay between the human body, space and technology are implicated in the process of making/remaking geographies of home.
Living in ‘idiotic’ homes: multisensory geographies of home in the digital context
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