The unchallenged persuasions of mobile media technology: The pre-domestication of Google Glass in the Finnish press

Minna Saariketo

The unchallenged persuasions of mobile media technology: The pre-domestication of Google Glass in the Finnish press

Minna Saariketo^*

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Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

In recent years, networked devices have taken an ever tighter hold of people's everyday lives. The tech companies are frantically competing to grab people's attention and secure a place in their daily routines. In this short paper, I elaborat further a key finding from an analysis of Finnish press coverage on Google Glass between 2012 and 2015. The concept of pre-domestication is used to discuss the ways in which we are invited and persuaded by the media discourse to integrate ourselves in the carefully orchestrated digital environment. It is shown how the news coverage deprives potential new users of digital technology a chance to evaluate the underpinnings of the device, the attachments to data harvesting, and the practices of hooking attention. In the paper, the implications of contemporary computational imaginaries as (re)produced and circulated in the mainstream media are reflected, thereby shedding light on and opening possibilities to criticize the politics of mediated pre-domestication.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference, Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018
Editors	Eetu Mäkelä, Mikko Tolonen, Jouni Tuominen
Publisher	CEUR
Pages	454-459
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2018
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries - University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Duration: 7 Mar 2018 → 9 Mar 2018 Conference number: 3

Publication series

Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR
Volume	2084
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073
ISSN (Electronic)	1613-0073

Conference

Conference	Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries
Abbreviated title	DHN
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Helsinki
Period	07/03/2018 → 09/03/2018

Keywords

Big data
Data mining
Domestication theory
Google glass
Pre-domestication
Technological infrastructure

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Saariketo, M 2018, The unchallenged persuasions of mobile media technology: The pre-domestication of Google Glass in the Finnish press. in E Mäkelä, M Tolonen & J Tuominen (eds), Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference, Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2084, CEUR, pp. 454-459, Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, Helsinki, Finland, 07/03/2018.

The unchallenged persuasions of mobile media technology : The pre-domestication of Google Glass in the Finnish press. / Saariketo, Minna.

Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference, Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018. ed. / Eetu Mäkelä; Mikko Tolonen; Jouni Tuominen. CEUR, 2018. p. 454-459 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2084).

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