Beskrivelse
Warm experts and gay kinship: domestication media practices and intimacies of elderly people Domestication analysis typically privileges home-making practices of people who operate within and represent life forms privileged by hegemony. This paper takes a different route as we, from an intersectional perspective, examine domestication media practices and intimacies of 1) economically disenfranchised elderly living alone and 2) single as well as coupled elderly gay men. In doing so we establish connections between critical mediatization theory (Jansson, 2016) and cultural gerontology (Twigg & Martin, 2015) as we seek to map out the media homes of elderly people as ”spaces of the in-between”. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we ask how elderly people’s homes are affected by, and done with, technology. Which technologies are part of the research participants’ material home-space and thus comprise part of its connections to the “outside world”? How is material and symbolic disturbance managed? How are flows of connection consumed into narratives of agency and belonging? In presenting and comparing the two cases we draw out how media repertoires are managed in relationship to so-called “warm experts” (Bakardjieva, 2005), and interrogate how non-normative constructions of kinship (Weston, 1991) play a part in shaping the media home of the elderly person.| Periode | 9. maj 2017 → 12. maj 2017 |
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| Begivenhedstype | Konference |
| Placering | Karlsstad, SverigeVis på kort |