Objects and Media of the Home

By asking how media and home relate through specific case studies, this set of Field Notes, entitled Objects and Media of the Home, provides a diverse global panorama of domesticity. We believe that in an age of ever accelerating mediatisation, representations of home objects offer a powerful lens to both well-established and lesser-known histories of modernity in the domestic space. This piece collects 10 short essays that explore the mediatisation of seemingly meaningless objects, like dantels (a Turkish handicraft) and doorbells, as the primary lens through which to problematise and re-categorise domestic modernities.