Elaine Lally

At Home with Computers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New technologies are profoundly reshaping the world around us. Home computers - unheard of two decades ago - now play an intimate role as personal possessions in many people's lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 151mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781859735565
• ISBN-10: 1859735568
• Artikelnr.: 22347204

Autorenporträt

Elaine Lally is Assistant Director at the Institute for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction2 The Relationship of Ownership3 The Information Appliance4
Acquiring a Handle on the Future5 Computing in the Domestic Pattern of
Life6 Temporal Rhythms of the Computerized Home7 Negotiations of Ownership8
Is the Home Computer Pink or Blue?9 The Domestic Ecology of Objects10
Machines for Living11 Constructing the Self through ObjectificationAppendix
The Study ParticipantsBibliography