Engage_IoT Social engagements with the Internet of Things

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Privacy in the age of the internet of things: perceptions and practices in households

Publication . Delicado, Ana; Rosales, Marta Vilar; Truninger, Monica; Rowland, Jussara; Viseu, Ana

Scientific and media discourse on the Internet of Things (IoT) emphasizes privacy concerns as a possible hurdle to widespread adoption. Drawing on a study conducted with users of home IoT devices and stakeholders, this article examines their perceptions, attitudes, and practices through the framework of privacy concerns, privacy rationales, and privacy work. The results show that users are ambivalent regarding data collection and transfer by IoT devices, oscillating between the advantages of personalization and fears of data commercialization, often accompanied by feelings of powerlessness and privacy resignation. Privacy rationales frequently translate into privacy work that includes rejection, digital housekeeping, and finding appropriate locations in the home. As IoT adoption expands beyond higher educated and higher skilled users, more effort should be made in regulating products and protecting citizens from the increased datafication of everyday life.

2025Artigo científico

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Sociotechnical Imaginaries of the Internet of Things

Publication . Delicado, Ana; Viseu, Ana; Mourão, Carolina

This chapter aims to identify different/competing sociotechnical imaginaries around Internet of Things (IoT) technology, the discourses and imagery on its affordances, as well as its risks, and the actors that engage in building/promoting/contesting these imaginaries. It is based on print media analysis, in particular systematic content analysis of news articles (and their images) published in the past ten years about IoT in online editions of “quality” newspapers from Spain, Portugal, and the UK. The chapter provides a brief overview of the theoretical dimensions of sociotechnical imaginaries and its application to IoT and addresses three main dimensions: how IoT futures are conceptualized in media, utopian visions, and dystopian visions. We ascertain that the media representations show diverse and conflicting narratives about IoT futures, even though there is a dominance of industry-led narratives. The absence of political discourses about IoT in media may be a symptom of the difficulty of regulating digital technologies. Private-for-profit owned media outlets are more prone to reproducing imaginaries put forward by tech companies and endorsed by institutions of power, such as governments, envisioning a future society entirely reliant (and surveilled by) their products, whereas non-profit owned outlets give voice to more contrarian, dystopic visions.

2025Capítulo de livro

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Engage IOT: societal engagements with the internet of things. A zine

Publication . Delicado, Ana; Rowland, Jussara; Venâncio, Clara

2024Outro

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Dimensões sociais da Internet das coisas em contexto doméstico