Domesticating Computers and the Internet

The people who use computers and the ways they use them have changed substantially over the past 25 years. In the beginning highly educated people, mostly men, in technical professions used computers for work, but over time a much broader range of people are using computers for personal and domestic purposes. This trend is still continuing, and over a shorter time scale has been replicated with the use of the Internet. This paper uses data from four national surveys to document how personal computers and the Internet have become increasingly domesticated since 1995 and to explore the mechanisms for this shift. Now people log on more often from home than from places of employment and do so for pleasure and for personal purposes rather than for their jobs. Analyses comparing veteran Internet users to novices in 1998 and 2000 and analyses comparing the change in use within a single sample between 1995 and 1996 support two complementary explanations for how these technologies have become domesticated. Women, children, and less well-educated individuals are increasingly using computers and the Internet and have a more personal set of motives than well-educated men. In addition, the widespread diffusion of the PC and the Internet and the response of the computing industry to the diversity in consumers has led to a rich set of personal and domestic services.     

Domesticating algorithms: An exploratory study of Facebook users in Myanmar

Abstract

This exploratory study investigates the encounters and everyday experiences with the Facebook algorithm of 18 informants in Yangon, Myanmar. It draws on domestication theory and research on algorithms to understand how users come to use and respond to Facebook. Findings showed that their particular perception of Facebook algorithm—Friends funnel information—informs their domestication process, wherein they add strangers as Friends to draw more information flows to their News Feeds.     

人工湿地植物的选择驯化研究综述

在查阅有关人工湿地植物的选择文献的基础上,总结出植物在人工湿地中的作用和选择人工湿地植物的一般原则,并指出筛选与驯化人工湿地植物的思路及理论依据,为构建人工湿地、选择合适的人工湿地植物提供参考与帮助。     

人工湿地植物的选择驯化研究综述

在查阅有关人工湿地植物的选择文献的基础上,总结出植物在人工湿地中的作用和选择人工湿地植物的一般原则。并指出筛选与驯化人工湿地植物的思路及理论依据,为构建人工湿地、选择合适的人工漫地植物提供参考与帮助。