ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 widens the debates discussed in the previous chapters into a broader discussion of the digital mundane. This realigns gendered socio-technical relations and explains the convolutions that often occur between practices and understandings (for example around privacy). Rather than suggest that technology is embedded within practices or that everyday practices extend to the digital (as previous theorists have done), this chapter suggests that we need to understand everyday practices as always-already digital, mundane, quotidian and banal. Generated and sustained by the politics of the digital and underpinned by a neoliberal sensibility around consumer choice and agency. This opens up new ways of thinking about the everyday as well as extending discursive arguments to technical infrastructure and politics.
