ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book aims to trace key historical events and recent trends that characterise the complex relationship between householders, homes and media technologies. It examines key features of the mediatisation of home. Today's mediatised home harbours more complex and ambiguous meanings, particularly for certain social groups. The book explores the contradictory discursive tendencies that shape and attempt to fix media imaginaries about the home as a domestic space. It highlights the struggles over traditional and modern meanings of the mediatised home, from a site of traditional family harmony to a postmodern site of mobility, agency and change. Domestication therefore concerns the ways in which macro-social processes of mediatisation operate at micro-social levels. The book also highlights growing commercial media surveillance in the home as a disturbing contemporary manifestation of the permeable boundaries around the mediatised home.
