Consuming Familiarity and Alterity in Domestic Space
The present article addresses how stereotyped constructions of migrants’ television behaviour should be contrasted with empirical investigations into the perceptions and articulated practices of migrants themselves. In order to do this, the article explores how 20 migrant households in Norway make s...
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| description | The present article addresses how stereotyped constructions of migrants’ television behaviour should be contrasted with empirical investigations into the perceptions and articulated practices of migrants themselves. In order to do this, the article explores how 20 migrant households in Norway make sense of television and TV-related activities in their everyday lives. The analysis, employing the domestication theoretical framework, reveals that TV consumption is a multi-faceted and situationally contingent phenomenon. The “practicing of television” goes beyond the mere viewing of programmes based on ethnic origin. Although transnational broadcasts are important, they are neither uncritically domesticated nor sufficient in creating a sense of stability and belonging for migrant families. Rather, it is television as a total experience that proves to be a crucial element in home construction. The domestication theory offers an analytical framework that allows for the dynamics of household relations to be properly articulated, including the embedding of television within household moral economies |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0a1f95e73b694009950d608298b4b79d2023-08-02T08:14:26ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192014-06-01351516410.2478/nor-2014-0004Consuming Familiarity and Alterity in Domestic SpaceSlettemeås Dag0National Institute for Consumer Research, Norway (SIFO)The present article addresses how stereotyped constructions of migrants’ television behaviour should be contrasted with empirical investigations into the perceptions and articulated practices of migrants themselves. In order to do this, the article explores how 20 migrant households in Norway make sense of television and TV-related activities in their everyday lives. The analysis, employing the domestication theoretical framework, reveals that TV consumption is a multi-faceted and situationally contingent phenomenon. The “practicing of television” goes beyond the mere viewing of programmes based on ethnic origin. Although transnational broadcasts are important, they are neither uncritically domesticated nor sufficient in creating a sense of stability and belonging for migrant families. Rather, it is television as a total experience that proves to be a crucial element in home construction. The domestication theory offers an analytical framework that allows for the dynamics of household relations to be properly articulated, including the embedding of television within household moral economieshttps://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2014-0004domesticationtelevisionsatellite-tvmigrationhousehold |
| spellingShingle | Slettemeås Dag Consuming Familiarity and Alterity in Domestic Space Nordicom Review domestication television satellite-tv migration household |
| title | Consuming Familiarity and Alterity in Domestic Space |
| title_full | Consuming Familiarity and Alterity in Domestic Space |
| title_fullStr | Consuming Familiarity and Alterity in Domestic Space |
| title_full_unstemmed | Consuming Familiarity and Alterity in Domestic Space |
| title_short | Consuming Familiarity and Alterity in Domestic Space |
| title_sort | consuming familiarity and alterity in domestic space |
| topic | domestication television satellite-tv migration household |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2014-0004 |
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