ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of the material articulations of television for the processes of media appropriation. It focuses on how the various devices shape the usage and the social practice of television and thereby draws on ethnographic material collected from households in Berlin between 2019 and 2021. The research results show that television can mean an entanglement of different devices that come together in fragile networks. To identify these individual actors and determine their positions, the text draws on actor network theory to also consider the agency of things. The multi-method approach, which includes participant observation and thick descriptions as well as visual methods such as video re-enactments and 3-D renderings, brings media technologies as part of the material culture of households into focus. The text reflects on these methodological tools and at the same time analyses how the different devices used for watching television affect the feeling of being at home.
