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	Domestication of Technology Analysis	Actor-Network Theory Analysis
Field	Science Technology Studies	Science Technology Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1992	1984
Originator	Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsch, David Morley	Bruno Latour, Michel Callon, John Law
Type	Qualitative analytic framework in media and technology studies	Material-semiotic theory and analytic method
Seminal source	Silverstone, R., & Hirsch, E. (Eds.). (1992). Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces. Routledge. ISBN: 9780415067003	Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199256051
Aliases	Domestication theory, Domestication approach, Taming of technology analysis	ANT analysis, Sociology of translation, Actant-network mapping
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Summary	Domestication of technology analysis studies how people 'tame' new technologies—turning a strange, commercially loaded object into a familiar, taken-for-granted part of everyday life. Developed by Roger Silverstone and colleagues to understand media and information technologies in the home, it treats consumption not as a single moment of purchase but as an ongoing process through which artefacts are appropriated, given a place, woven into routines, and made to express identity. The household is analysed as a 'moral economy' that negotiates the meaning and use of every technology that crosses its threshold.	Actor-Network Theory analysis treats society and technology as a single woven fabric, mapping how heterogeneous human and non-human actors—engineers, scallops, documents, machines, regulators—are linked into networks through a process of translation. Rather than explaining technical outcomes by appeal to pre-given social categories, ANT follows the actors themselves and describes how durable arrangements are assembled, stabilised, and sometimes undone.