User Unfriendly [Recurso electrónico] : Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers / Joseph J. Corn.

Por:

Corn, Joseph J

Colaborador(es):

Project Muse

Tipo de material: Texto

TextoSeries Book collections on Project MUSEDetalles de publicación: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 2015)Descripción: 1 online resource (272 p. :) illTipo de contenido:

texto

Tipo de medio:

con mediación

Tipo de soporte:

online resource

ISBN:

9781421401935
1421401932

Tema(s):

Género/Forma:

Electronic books.

Clasificación CDD:

303.48/30973

Clasificación LoC:

T173.8 .C685 2011

Recursos en línea:

Contenidos:

Our marvelous and maddening machines -- The advent of technology consumption -- Buying an automobile -- Running a car -- Tools, tinkering, and trouble -- Reading the owner's manual -- Computers and the tyranny of technology consumption -- The technology treadmill -- Acknowledgments

Alcance y contenido: "Joseph J. Corn maps two centuries of consumer frustration and struggle with personal technologies. ... Having extensively researched owner's manuals, computer user-group newsletters, and how-to literature, Corn brings a fresh, consumer-oriented approach to the history of technology."--Dust jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-264) and index.

Libro Electrónico

"Joseph J. Corn maps two centuries of consumer frustration and struggle with personal technologies. ... Having extensively researched owner's manuals, computer user-group newsletters, and how-to literature, Corn brings a fresh, consumer-oriented approach to the history of technology."--Dust jacket.

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