Feeling at home: Sound, affect and domesticity on radio soap operas

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Ilana R. Emmett
Keyword(s):  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Feeling At Home ◽  
At Home

This article introduces the concept of ‘the everyday implausible’, asserting that, between 1930 and 1960, US radio serial aesthetics produced a tug-of-war between the familiar and the unfamiliar that was simultaneously radical and reactionary. This aesthetic created a space for the listener to place new versions of herself within the narrative, inviting the imagined woman-at-home to re-envisioning the possibilities of reality. However, re-envisioning reality produced its own set of limitations. The sonic features of the radio serial soundscape created imaginary spaces within the home, but these imaginary spaces were – as often as not – also homes, making the potential of escape wholly illusory. In giving attention to the specific aesthetic features of these programmes, this article interrogates the meaningful work produced by a sparse soundscape, alongside an emphasis on domesticity and emotional conversation.

scholarly journals Digital work and play: Mobile technologies and new ways of feeling at home

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Pink ◽  
Larissa Hjorth ◽  
Heather Horst ◽  
Josh Nettheim ◽  
Genevieve Bell
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
Middle Class Families ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
Feeling At Home ◽  
At Home

In this article, we advance current discussions by bringing together debates about digital play and digital labour. We consider everyday life entanglements of mobile media and digital work and play at home. To develop this argument, we analyse the embodied and affective dimensions of mundane everyday life at home with digital media through the concepts of atmosphere and ambient play. We argue that attention to how digital play is implicated in the constitution of texture and feeling of the everyday needs to underpin our understanding of how mobile media are participating in shifts in everyday experiences of work and home. In doing so, we draw on ethnographic research undertaken with middle-class families in Melbourne, Australia.

Feeling at Home in the Neighborhood: Belonging, the House and the Plaza in Helsinki and Madrid

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-237
Author(s):  
Kaisa Kuurne (Ketokivi) ◽  
M. Victoria Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Feeling At Home ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Web ◽  
At Home

Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork in two historic, attractive, and socially mixed neighborhoods, Kumpula in Helsinki and Malasaña in Madrid, this paper examines what makes people feel at home (or not) in their neighborhood. Marrying the literatures on social belonging and materiality, we analyze the interactions through which local places, people, and materials become familiar and personal. We identify the house in Kumpula and the plaza in Madrid as “everyday totems” that weave local life and community together. In both neighborhoods, the testimonies of home are accompanied with an attachment to the local totem and related lifestyle, but the house and the plaza generate different everyday politics of belonging. House–based belonging in Kumpula requires resources and long–term engagement that over time contributes to a personal, but rather exclusive web of belonging. Plaza–based belonging in Malasaña is more inclusive and elastic, but joining the web of belonging requires time and sociability.

Feeling at home

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Joanna Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Feeling At Home ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals Television’s role in Indian new screen ecology

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1226-1242
Author(s):  
Smith Mehta
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Industry Studies ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Digital Delivery

In this article, I discuss the various issues that have prompted select creators such as writers, directors, actors, producers and casting agents to focus their creative energies on Internet-based content. The article’s main findings illustrate that because a growing segment of Indian content, new media practitioners are disillusioned by the programming and industrial practices of television, they increasingly embrace digital delivery platforms as the preferred outlets for their creative expressions. By drawing from critical media industry studies framework, the aim of this research is to examine the everyday practices of content creators and compare the formal and aesthetic qualities of their textual artefacts, as these professionals navigate the larger structural tensions between television and Internet in India. The article marshals evidence based on qualitative interviews, trade press, and news articles to suggest that the television industry’s production culture discourages creators from seeking meaningful work and instead look for opportunities on the Internet.

Culture Mavens: Feeling at Home in America

Jews at Home ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 287-292
Author(s):  
Jenna Weissman Joselit
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
American Culture ◽  
American Jews ◽  
American Jewry ◽  
Jewish Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
Feeling At Home ◽  
At Home

This chapter reviews recent museum exhibitions and guides to cultural Jewishness to pose the question of whether a new emotional concept of Jews at home is apparent in American culture. Considering the status of American Jewry as the largest diaspora population in the world, one must wonder if it constitutes a decided rupture with the past, an entirely new calibration of matters Jewish, or simply an expression of tradition in a new register. It laments the difficulty of studying the American Jewry, especially when compared with the Jewish populations in other countries — to say nothing of contemporary Israeli society. The American Jews' fluid and simultaneous embrace of consumer culture and liturgical tradition, of ‘kosher cellphones’ and gay weddings, of Chinese food and ‘heirloom talitot’ (prayer shawls) that embed a photograph of a beloved ancestor in their folds — makes for a culture that defies easy description. Yet the chapter surmises that there is something about the modern American Jewish experience circa 2009 that seems downright revolutionary rather than evolutionary.

Feeling at Home with Calcium

2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (321) ◽  
pp. tw47-tw47
Keyword(s):  
Feeling At Home ◽  
At Home
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