TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirsch,Eric
AU  - Silverstone,Roger
TI  - Consuming technologies: media and information in domestic spaces 
SN  - 0415117127
U1  - 303.483 
PY  - 1991/// (1994 printing)
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Technology
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -