Video and a sense of the invisible: Approaching domestic energy consumption through the sensory home

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Pink, Sarah ^a   Mackley, Kerstin Leder ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecology of home; Energy consumption; Invisibility; Methodology; Place; Qualitative research; Sensory ethnography; Video

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857866410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13607804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.2583     Document Type: Article

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