User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn.

By:

Corn, Joseph J

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781421401935
1421401932

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: User unfriendly.DDC classification:

303.48/30973 22

LOC classification:

T173.8 .C685 2011

Other classification:

50.14
71.43
86.67

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Contents:

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.

Scope and content: "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."--Jacket.

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

"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."--Jacket.