ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a conceptual framework that can be brought into research on young children’s digital practices and experiences in contemporary homes and families. It reviews different ways in which the home has been represented in research in Home Studies and Childhood Studies and builds from existing discussions to rethink home and childhood in the digital era. The centrality of families as a space of young children’s digital appropriation is reflected in studies that emphasize the home as a key setting to locate research on the role that technology and digital literacies play in children’s lives. In contemporary discourse and in childhood research the concepts of “home” and “house” are often used interchangeably. The notion of home as a sociocultural construct articulates two main attributes: order and identity. Home is more than a physical space: it is a place full of meanings and it is part of identity construction and the matrix of relationships between people and the social environment.
