Everyday Life Information Ecologies and Continuums of Technology Use of Teens from an Urban Setting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Michelle Magee
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Information Ecologies

Beyond non-/use: The affected bystander and her escalation

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 2235-2251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susann Wagenknecht
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Technological System

The article proceeds from the observation that in everyday life we are surrounded by technology, most of which we do not use ourselves. Rather, we are, often involuntarily, subjected to the effects of others’ technology use. The article characterizes this condition as affected bystanding, a condition that comes with quotidian, often banal, experiences of passivity and marginality. The affected bystander is neither entirely included nor excluded by a technological system and the practices of its operation. For this reason, affected bystanding is not adequately accounted for by established categories of exchange, participation, collaboration, use, and non-use. Since affected bystanding is often an undesirable condition, the article discusses how the affected bystander may address her condition— escalate it—by positioning herself as bystanding affector.

scholarly journals Charging of electric vehicles and potential for end user flexibility: Case study from Norway

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Marie Henriksen ◽  
William Throndsen ◽  
Marianne Ryghaug ◽  
Tomas Moe Skjølsvold
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Combustion Engine ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
End User ◽  
Smart Charging ◽  
Domestication Theory ◽  
Ev Charging

Abstract Background Norway is currently in the process of replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with electric vehicles (EV). The steadily increasing number of EVs being charged in the mornings and evenings in Norway has added strain to local electricity grids. This article presents findings from a qualitative study of participants in one Norwegian demonstration project on smart EV charging, which intends to make charging more flexible. In order to establish a systematic overview of the relationship between everyday complexities and EV charging end user flexibility, we employ a domestication theory approach and analyze how different charging practices becomes a part of everyday life. Result In this paper we argue that the domestication theory approach, with its focus on symbolic, practical, and cognitive aspects of technology use and appropriation, highlights how EV uptake and ancillary technologies is modulated by a wide array of factors. Our findings present four different motivations behind our respondents’ choice to participate in a smart charging pilot. The first one is the fire safe charging device. Second is motivated by the pure joy of smart home technology, third is the practical- economical motivation, and the fourth is flexibility as comfort. Conclusions In the green transition whit new renewables and the electrification of transport system the EV charges are a hot spot. By analyzing how different EV owner’s domestication their EV charging we can understand how flexibility from the end-user are individual practice that is connected to the everyday life routine and interest. EV owners do not have one profile but are driven by different kind of motivation. This micro perspective of understanding the flexibility is crucial when the individuals EV charging practice is both a part of the challenges and the solution in the energy transition where the electric grid need to be stabilized.

scholarly journals Contemporary Hungarian Women’s Writing and Cosmopolitanism

Porównania ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-246
Author(s):  
Ágnes Györke
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Hungarian Literature ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Women’S Writing

This article investigates contemporary Hungarian women’s writing in the context of cosmopolitan feminism. The literary works explored are Noémi Szécsi’s The Finno-Ugrian Vampire, Noémi Kiss’s Trans and Virág Erdős’s Luminous Bodies: 100 Little Budapest, which I read as examples of a cosmopolitan feminist engagement with urban space. As opposed to the Kantian concept of cosmopolitanism, which has been critiqued for failing to take the experiences of particular social groups and geographical regions into account, cosmopolitan feminism focuses on the local and the embodied. The discussed texts thematise border crossing both on the level of form and content, while they engage with the mundane, affective aspects of everyday life in an emphatically urban setting. This cosmopolitan feminism challenges parochial, heavy, national literary traditions and points towards a distinct feministaesthetics in contemporary Hungarian literature.

The structures of everyday life in the Postclassic urban setting of Mayapan

2020 ◽  
pp. 794-812
Author(s):  
Marilyn A. Masson ◽  
Timothy S. Hare
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Setting
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