Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic SpacesEric Hirsch, Roger Silverstone Consuming Technologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world, and an explanation of the relationship between the domestic and public spheres as they are mediated by consumption and technology. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part I Conceptual and thematic issues | 11 |
Chapter 1 Information and communication technologies and the moral economy of the household | 13 |
Chapter 2 The circuit of technology Gender identity and power | 29 |
Chapter 3 The desire for the new Its nature and social location as presented in theories of fashion | 44 |
Part II Information and communication technologies in the home | 59 |
Chapter 4 The shape of things to consume | 61 |
Chapter 5 Explaining ICT consumption | 75 |
Chapter 8 Livingroom wars | 122 |
Chapter 9 Contextualizing home computing | 136 |
Part III Appropriations | 150 |
Chapter 10 The Young and the Restless in Trinidad | 152 |
Chapter 11 The Amish and the telephone | 171 |
Chapter 12 Regimes of closure | 182 |
Chapter 13 The long term and the short term of domestic consumption | 194 |
Postscript | 211 |
Chapter 6 Personal computers gender and an institutional model of the hpusehold | 89 |
Chapter 7 The meaning of domestic technologies | 104 |
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Other editions - View all
Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces Eric Hirsch,Roger Silverstone Limited preview - 2003 |
Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces Roger Silverstone,Eric Hirsch Limited preview - 1992 |
Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces Roger Silverstone,Eric Hirsch No preview available - 1994 |
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