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Aural Expectations of Home: An Autoethnography of the Amazon Echo Smart Speaker (2021)

Stephen J. Neville
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The paper conducts an autoethnographic case study of the Amazon Echo smart speaker to explore problems of acoustical privacy at home. A gap in surveillance research is addressed by treating smart speakers as private social media platforms that connect users to sound, devices, and home environments. The concept of aural expectations of home is developed which expresses how dwellers live with and through sound. The paper argues that problems of acoustical boundary control in the domestic sphere not only help understand the communicative and socially connective aspects of smart speakers, but also illuminate surveillance issues as one’s sonic habits at home are rendered as data under the purview of corporations.
typeresearch exposition
date18/11/2021
published26/11/2021
last modified26/11/2021
statuspublished
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copyrightNeville
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1426664/1426665
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/JSS.1426664
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue22. Issue 22


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