ISBN:
9780415117128
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (249 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Consuming Technologies : Media and Information in Domestic Spaces
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Opens up for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Information and communication technologies and the moral economy of the household; Chapter 2 The circuit of technology Gender, identity and power; Chapter 3 The desire for the new Its nature and social location as presented in theories of fashion; Part II Information and communication technologies in the home; Chapter 4 The shape of things to consume; Chapter 5 Explaining ICT consumption; Chapter 6 Personal computers, gender and an institutional model of the hpusehold
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7 The meaning of domestic technologiesChapter 8 Living-room wars; Chapter 9 Contextualizing home computing; Part III Appropriations; Chapter 10 The Young and the Restless in Trinidad; Chapter 11 The Amish and the telephone; Chapter 12 Regimes of closure; Chapter 13 The long term and the short term of domestic consumption; Postscript; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
