TY  - BOOK
AU  - Corn,Joseph J.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers 
SN  - 9781421401935
AV  - T173.8 .C685 2011
U1  - 303.48/30973 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Consumer satisfaction
KW  - Human-computer interaction
KW  - Human-machine systems
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-264) and index; 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; Libro Electrónico
N2  - "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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/1759/
UR  - http://www.udb.edu.sv/biblioteca/inicio_recursos_electronicos.php
ER  -