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