Information and communication technologies and the moral economy of the household

By E. Hirsch, R. Silverstone. 2003

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Smart homes and their users: a systematic analysis and key challenges (2014, background): “Domestic technologies will not serve solely functional purposes, but will be used and understood within broader and pre-existing household ‘‘moral economies’’—the unique and normally unques-tioned sets of values, routines and practices that underpin domestic life [38, 69, 76].”
Behavioural responses to photovoltaic systems in the UK domestic sector (2007, neutral): “This suggests that the socio-demographic attributes identified above reflect a particular domestic ‘moral economy’ (Silverstone et al. 1994), rather than vice versa.”
Apart from technology: understanding people’s non-use of information and communication technologies in everyday life (2003, background): “’s notion of the domestication of technology within the ‘moral economy’ of institutions such as the household [72].”
Using Skype to Mother: Bodies, Emotions, Visuality, and Screens (2013, background): “…‘conversion’, when a technology is introduced into a household; Flanagan (2000) on how gendered concepts are embedded in the construction of online worlds; Silverstone et al (1992) on ICTs and the moral economy of households; and Koerber (2001) on ‘feminist mothers on the web’. dining…”