Table Of ContentThe Home in the Digital Age
The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring
the impact of digital technologies in the home, with a shift of emphasis from
technology to the people living and using this in their homes.
The book covers a wide variety of topics on the design, introduction and
use of digital technologies in the home, combining the technological dimen-
sion with the cognitive, emotional, cultural and symbolic dimensions of the
objects that incorporate digital technologies and project them onto people’s
lives. It offers a coherent approach, that of the home, which gives unity to the
discussion.
Scholars of the home, the house and the family will find here the connection
with the problems derived from the use of domestic robots and connected
devices. Students of artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, big data
and other branches of digital technologies will find ideas and arguments to
apply their disciplines to the home and participate fruitfully in forums where
digital technologies are built and negotiated in the home. Experts from various
disciplines – psychologists and sociologists; philosophers, epistemologists
and ethicists; economists; engineers, architects, urban planners and designers
and so on – and also those interested in developing policies for the home and
family will find this book contains well-f ounded and useful ideas to focus
their work.
Antonio Argandoña is Emeritus Professor at IESE Business School, University
of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain.
Joy Malala is a Lecturer at Aston University Law School, Birmingham, UK.
Richard C. Peatfield was Consultant Neurologist at Princess Margaret
Migraine Clinic, Charing Cross Hospital and at Mount Vernon Hospital,
Northwood.
Routledge Advances in Sociology
COVID- 19
Volume II: Social Consequences and Cultural Adaptations
Edited by J. Michael Ryan
Prevent Strategy
Helping the Vulnerable Being Drawn Towards Terrorism or Another Layer of
State Surveillance?
Edited by David Lowe and Robin Bennett
Regime Change in Turkey
Neoliberal Authoritarianism, Islamism and Hegemony
Edited by Errol Babacan, Melehat Kutun, Ezgi Pınar and Zafer Yılmaz
The Politics of Europeanisation
Work and Family Life Reconciliation Policy
Nazli Kazanoglu
Internet Dating
Intimacy and Social Change
Chris Beasley and Mary Holmes
Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking
Pierpaolo Donati
Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse
Neighbourhoods
Jenny Phillimore, Hannah Bradby, Tilman Brand, Beatriz Padilla and
Simon Pemberton
The Home in the Digital Age
Antonio Argandoña, Joy Malala and Richard C. Peatfield
For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/
Routledge- Advances- in- Sociology/ book- series/ SE0511 )
The Home in the Digital Age
Edited by Antonio Argandoña,
Joy Malala and Richard C. Peatfield
First published 2021
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business
© 2021 selection and editorial matter, Antonio Argandoña, Joy Malala and
Richard C. Peatfield; individual chapters, the contributors
The right of Antonio Argandoña, Joy Malala and Richard C. Peatfield to be identified
as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters,
has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised
in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or
hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information
storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks,
and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Argandoña Rámiz, Antonio, editor. | Malala, Joy, editor. |
Peatfield, R. C. (Richard C.), editor.
Title: The home in the digital age / edited by Antonio Argandoña,
Joy Malala and Richard C. Peatfield.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Routledge advances in sociology | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020055414 (print) | LCCN 2020055415 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367530174 (hbk) | ISBN 9781003080114 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Home automation.
Classification: LCC TK7881.25 .H66 2021 (print) |
LCC TK7881.25 (ebook) | DDC 643/.6–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055414
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055415
ISBN: 978- 0- 367- 53017- 4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-53018-1 (pbk)
ISBN: 978- 1- 003- 08011- 4 (ebk)
Typeset in Times New Roman
by Newgen Publishing UK
Contents
List of illustrations vii
List of contributors viii
Foreword by Bryan K. Sanderson xvi
Foreword by Carlos P. Cavallé xviii
Preface by Sonia Livingstone xxi
1 Introduction: The home in the digital age 1
ANTONIO ARGANDOÑA, JOY MALALA AND RICHARD C. PEATFIELD
2 Digital Home: The missing element for a people- centred
digital future 15
MEI LIN FUNG AND DEBORAH GALE
3 Artificial intelligence-e mpowered technology in the home 38
MATILDE SANTOS AND FRANCESCA TONI
4 Contested homes in the age of the cloud: The changing
socio- spatial dynamics of family living and care for older
people in the 21st century 56
MOHAMED GAMAL ABDELMONEM
5 Homes as human– robot ecologies: An epistemological
inquiry on the “domestication” of robots 80
LUISA DAMIANO
6 Homes through the design shift in the digital age 103
IOANA OCNARESCU AND DOMINIQUE SCIAMMA
7 Automation, the home and work 120
STEPHEN DAVIES AND MARIA SOPHIA AGUIRRE
vi Contents
8 The impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work 143
MIA MIKIC AND JOY MALALA
9 Ethics and digital technologies in the home 160
ANTONIO ARGANDOÑA
Index 185
Illustrations
Figures
4.1 Home technologies: Functions 61
8.1 Range of estimates of the share of jobs at risk of being lost to
automation 150
Tables
2.1 Some perils of technology 18
7.1 How does the family fit in the economy? 132
8.1 Major AI techniques and functional applications 146
8.2 AI sectoral applications 147
8.3 Myths and evidence on impacts on jobs 151
Contributors
Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem is the Chair in Architecture and the Director of
the Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Global Heritage at Nottingham
Trent University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Gamal is the uni-
versity lead of the Strategic Research Theme, Global Heritage. He is the
recipient of NTU 2020 Vice-C hancellor Outstanding Researcher Award
and the 2014 recipient of the Jeffrey Cook Award of the International
Association of the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE). He serves
as international expert on several international research associations,
councils and funding panels in the United States, the United Kingdom and
Europe. His research focuses on architectural and urban history, everyday
homes, socio- spatial practices of urban communities, virtual heritage,
medieval culture and post-c onflict cities. His research has informed policy
and practice of several governments and international organisations on
aspects of heritage preservation, urban planning and architecture of home.
His recent books include Peripheries: Edge Conditions in Architecture
(2012), Portush: Towards an Architecture for the North Irish Coast (2013);
The Architecture of Home in Cairo (2015); Architecture, Space and Memory
of Resurrection in Northern Ireland (2019) and People, Care and Work in
the Home (2020).
Maria Sophia Aguirre is an Ordinary Professor of Economics in the
Department of Economics at the Catholic University of America. She
is the founder of the Integral Economic Development methodology and
Programs at this department. She earned her PhD in Economics from the
University of Notre Dame and joined the Catholic University in 1994.
Her professional background also includes degrees in accounting and
banking finance, earned in Argentina. She also earned her undergraduate
degrees, CPA and MBA, in Argentina. Dr Aguirre specialises in inter-
national finance and economic development. She has researched and
published in the areas of exchange rates and economic integration, as well
as on theories of population, human and social capital and family as it
relates to integral economic development. She has been the recipient of
Contributors ix
several grants to support her research, and is a Fulbright Scholar. She is
a member of several prestigious organisations and publications, in which
she serves and has served as an officer in different capacities as well as a
member of the editorial board. She has testified in front of Congresses
on issues related to population, family and health, both nationally and
internationally, and has advised several governments on women’s educa-
tion, family policy and health. She served as a presidential appointee to
the US Advisory Commission on Foreign Diplomacy, 2003– 2008, was a
member of the Advisory Board to the Millennium Development Goals
Fund (MDGF) evaluation and assisted the UN with the transition from
the MDG to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Antonio Argandoña is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Business
Ethics at IESE Business School. He got his PhD from the University
of Barcelona (1969). He has taught in the universities of Barcelona,
Málaga and Navarre. He is a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias
Económicas y Financieras de España (Royal Academy of Economics
and Finance), chairman of the Comité de Normativa y Ética Profesional
(Committee of Standards and Professional Ethics) of the Association
of Economists of Catalonia, member of the Commission on Corporate
Social Responsibility and Anti-C orruption of the International Chamber
of Commerce of Paris and of the deontological committees of various
companies and institutions. He has published numerous books and articles
on macroeconomics and monetary economics, the home and family issues,
business and economic ethics, corporate social responsibility and related
topics. He was the editor or co- editor and co- author of People, Care and
Work in the Home (Routledge, 2020), Work in a Human Economy. Business
and Common Good in a Changing Society (Edusc, 2018), The Home.
Multidisciplinary Reflections (Edward Elgar, 2017), The Social Dimensions
of Employment. Institutional Reforms in Labour Markets (Edward Elgar,
2002) and The Ethical Dimension of Financial Institutions and Markets
(Springer, 1995).
Luisa Damiano (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at
the IULM University (Milan, Italy), and the coordinator of the Research
Group on the Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial (RG-ESA).
Her main research areas include epistemology of complex systems, epis-
temology of the cognitive sciences and epistemology of the sciences of
the artificial. On topics related to these domains she has written many
articles and two books (Unità in dialogo, Bruno Mondadori, 2009, and
Vivre avec les robots. Essai sur l’empathie artificielle, Seuil, 2016, with
P. Dumouchel, published in English by Harvard University Press, 2017,
in Korean by HEEDAM, 2019, and in Italian by Raffaello Cortina, 2019),
and co- edited several journal special issues (among which are Artificial
Empathy, International Journal of Social Robotics, with P. Dumouchel
