Consuming technologies : media and information in domestic spaces / edited by Roger Silverstone and Eric Hirsch.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 1991 (1994 printing)Description: xiii, 241 pISBN:- 0415117127
- 303.483
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Includes index.
List of contributors -- Foreword: The mirror of technology -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Conceptual and thematic issues -- 1. Information and communication technologies and the moral economy of the household -- 2. The circuit of technology: gender, identity and power -- 3. The desire for the new: its nature and social location as presented in theories of fashion and modern consumerism -- Pt. II. Information and communication technologies in the home -- 4. The shape of things to consume -- 5. Explaining ICT consumption: the case of the home computer -- 6. Personal computers, gender and an institutional model of the household -- 7. The meaning of domestic technologies: a personal construct analysis of familial gender relations -- 8. Living-room wars: new technologies, audience measurement and the tactics of television consumption -- 9. Contextualizing home computing: resources and practices -- Pt. III. Appropriations -- 10. The Young and the Restless in Trinidad: a case of the local and the global in mass consumption -- 11. The Amish and the telephone: resistance and reconstruction -- 12. Regimes of closure: The representation of cultural process in domestic consumption -- 13. The long term and the short term of domestic consumption: an ethnographic case study -- Postscript: Revolutionary technologies and technological revolutions -- Index.
Examines how different media are used in the domestic arena. Explores the relationship between the domestic and public spheres as they are mediated by consumption and technology.
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