"Deborah Chambers’ new book answers a desperate need to understand the way media continually reshapes the domestic realm. At a time when our homes are populated by devices that have revolutionised our connections to the world, she provides us with astute histories and lucid maps for understanding this new situation, and she does so with intelligence and verve."Ben Highmore, Professor of Cultural Studies (Media and Film), University of Sussex"This new book is to be welcomed both as a critical review of and a valuable contribution to the academic literature on media-in-domestic-lives. Chambers offers a discussion of key concepts and research findings in this area, whilst underlining the importance of studying media technologies in their social and historical contexts."Shaun Moores, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Sunderland"This book makes strikingly clear what has too often been underplayed in the largely disconnected trajectories of household studies and media studies: that homes and media have, in the modern era, been deeply intertwined. Chambers traces, across historical periods and technological innovations, how media came to penetrate homes, and how homes determine the way media is understood: just as media has been domesticated, the home has been mediatised."Anna Cristina Pertierra, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis, University of Western Sydney