@inbook{fbb0964dbb0f435a94feb68ac5b2bae3,
title = "Domesticating Smartphones",
abstract = "Recent developments in the media landscape have pointed towards complex processes of convergence and diversification exemplified not least by smartphones. The smartphone is an example of media convergence par excellence (Cumiskey and Hjorth, 2013); it is a meta-technology (Jensen, 2010), capable of representing all previous media forms on a single, mobile material platform. At the same time, it is used in connection with a multitude of services and content forms across media. This chapter discusses the smartphone as an object of domestication by examining a number of general themes related to the domestication of this type of media technology. Some of these themes are well known from research on other media technologies (see Haddon, 2016), but have become reactualized in the context of smartphones and an increasingly complex and interconnected media landscape. Furthermore, in the course of this discussion the chapter asks how to approach the complexities associated with smartphones in the domestication framework.",
author = "Bertel, {Troels Fib{\ae}k}",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.4324/9781315307077-7",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-138-23438-3",
pages = "83--94",
editor = "Jane Vincent and Leslie Haddon",
booktitle = "Smartphone Cultures",
publisher = "Routledge",
}