Home interiors: online and offline
€ 3.00Most of us turn an abstract place or building into a home through a process of interior decoration. This is a dynamic process and in a way we are all the museum curators of our lives. The profound importance of these possessions is illustrated by how we use them after a death to help us through bereavement. Yet objects performs these roles of comfort best when we do not `see’ them or realise that this is what they are doing. More recently we have seen a vast migration to online life. I argue that online technologies, such as social media, do not just connected people or places. They too have become places within which we now live. I demonstrate this through examples of how we also turn those online places into our new homes through an analogous process of online interior decoration and curation.
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Daniel Miller is a professor of Anthropology at the University College of London and one of the leading experts on material culture, as well as a pioneer of digital anthropology. He is considered the founder of consumer anthropology. In 2012, he launched the five-year Social Networking and Social Sciences Research Project to examine the global impact of new forms of social media. The study is based on ethnographic data gathered over 15 months in diverse regions around the world, and is financed by the European Research Council. His books include Material Culture and Mass Consumption (1987); Capitalism. An Ethnographic Approach (1997); A Theory of Shopping (1998), The Comfort of Things (2008), Stuff (2010) and Consumption and its Consequences (2011).
Daniel Miller & i Dialoghi
2015
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