The aftermath of minds, hearts, and symbols: a multidimensional perspective on digital housework

• Authors: Alina Silion
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Digital housework is one of the outcomes of the spread of interactive, smart technologies in the home. This new type of work consists of domestic, personal, and professional activities that are carried out at home using technological and digital devices. This study seeks to provide a better understanding of the gender implications of the cognitive, emotional, symbolic, and outcome dimensions of digital housework. The research questions used in the study are: (1) What are cognitive, emotional, and symbolic digital housework tasks and their outcomes? (2) What gender patterns can be observed in the performance of cognitive, emotional, and symbolic digital housework? The results are drawn from a thematic analysis of 53 cultural biographies of domestic devices and indicate a distinction between cognitive, emotion, and symbolic digital housework tasks that lead to digital housework outcomes in the form of digital capital. The gender aspects of all the dimensions of digital housework are discussed along with the theoretical and practical implications of the study’s findings.

Keywords

EN

digital housework; gender; digital capital

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 13-41
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Alina Silion

• Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i. / Institute of Sociology CAS, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic